No original message text on reply or forward

[Iľja Pelech]

When replying or forwarding a message, the original message is not put into the composer window. Changing "Reply and Forward Style" in composer preferences did not help.
Same result when I tried to use varions forward styles using the dropdown on the main window toolbar.

Package info:

$ apt show evolution
Package: evolution
Version: 3.28.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 423 kB
Provides: imap-client, mail-reader
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcamel-1.2-61 (>= 3.28.1), libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 (>= 0.91.8), libecal-1.2-19 (>= 3.28.1), libedataserver-1.2-23 (>= 3.28.1), libevolution (>= 3.28.1), libevolution (<< 3.29), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.46.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libical3 (>= 3.0.0), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.42), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.5.3), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), evolution-common (= 3.28.1-1), evolution-data-server (>= 3.28.1), evolution-data-server (<< 3.29), dbus, psmisc
Recommends: evolution-plugins, evolution-plugin-bogofilter | evolution-plugin-spamassassin, evolution-plugin-pstimport, yelp
Suggests: evolution-ews, evolution-plugins-experimental, gnupg, network-manager
Breaks: evolution-common (<< 3.20.4-1~)
Replaces: evolution-common (<< 3.20.4-1~)
Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution
Supported: 3y
Download-Size: 259 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://sk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
Description: groupware suite with mail client and organizer
 Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar,
 address book, to-do list and memo tools.
 .
 Additional features include integration with Exchange
 servers, newsgroup client, LDAP support and web calendars
 .
 The following plugins belonging to the "base" set are included.
  - calendar-file
  - calendar-http
  - itip-formatter
  - default-source
  - addressbook-file
  - mark-all-read
  - publish-calendar
  - caldav
  - imap-features
  - google-account-setup
  - webdav-account-setup
  - calendar-weather
  - sa-junk-plugin
  - bogo-junk-plugin

[attila123 (vangel-attila)]

Hope this helps users like me searching about this problem:

I had this problem many-many months ago and then stopped using Evolution.
Now checked again, much newer version, but same issue.
In my case the solution was: go to Preferences -> Composer Preferences -> General tab -> Replies and Forwards -> check 'Reply style': make sure that it is not 'Do Not Quote'. Try which option is best for you. (I chose 'Inline (Outlook style)' because it contains not only the original sender, but the recipients as well.)