Evolution plain-text email includes formatting "stuff" - should be pure plain text
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evolution |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gtkhtml3.14 |
Won't Fix
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Low
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gtkhtml3.14 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
If a user sets their preferences to use/prefer plain-text email, then all new emails and all replies should be pure plain-text - no formatting boxes, no formatting choices, etc. Plain text is plain text.
Instead, when I reply to certain emails, there are formatting boxes present in the reply - those boxes with "dotted line edges". These contain the quoted reply. They shouldn't be there!!! And they make it extremely difficult edit a reply properly.
With plain text selected, there should be the "X wrote Y on D" header, the quoted reply (>... with an intelligent line length limit, e.g., 72), and any auto-inserted signature. And they should all be plain text lines.
In other words, I should be able to insert new lines and new text anywhere I want: After the header, in the middle of the quoted test, before the signature, etc.
But I cannot, because evolution appears to be trying to be helpful and is missing the mark.
This makes it somewhere between aggravatingly inconvenient and impossible to format replies as I want, in other words, to achieve proper emphasis, to rearrange text conveniently for readability, etc.
(On a possibly related note, I used to be able to use ctrl-L to go reflow quoted text and it would do the right thing - that has disappeared. Are these related directions?)
Every time I encounter this aggravation I seriously consider going to Mutt, despite its configuration complexity problems, or, worse, pine, which was quite a good MUA, despite its licensing challenges. The calendar and contacts integration is keeping me on evolution, but I'm not sure how long that will last.
This is not a wishlist item, this is a usability and accessibility issue: If a user chooses and prefers plain text, give them plain text.
(I've trolled the help and all preferences to make sure I am not missing anything, to ensure I have plain-text selected everywhere I need to, because this is extremely aggravating and is a serious - I'm not kidding! - productivity issue.)
Changed in evolution: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | New → Unknown |
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
affects: | evolution (Ubuntu) → gtkhtml3.14 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in evolution: | |
importance: | Unknown → Undecided |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in gtkhtml3.14: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gtkhtml3.14: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
Changed in gtkhtml3.14: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
the request is an upstream wishlist and should be sent on bugzilla.gnome.org