On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 10:03 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi patrick, just one question, what mail package are you using? I'm > using Thunderbird Daily and as displayed to me his comments display > unquoted in exactly the same way as your comments are unquoted. I could see he was using Evolution, it's in the headers: User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.4 (3.34.4-1.fc31) I'm using Evolution 3.28.5 (3.28.5-5.el7) There are a number of things that fool mail clients into joining replies in with the quotes. One of the main ones is when just start typing replies in the middle of quotes. Another is when people start replying immediately below a quote without adding a blank line between them. Thunderbird is particularly hideous at quoting, especially with plain text. You see this smattering of variable amounts of blank spaces between the quote prefix indicators (either > or | symbols). HTML mail ought to be able to do quoting better, simply because there are tags actually marking where a quote starts and ends, yet HTML mailers still do a diabolical job at quoting. Whenever I reply to an email, it's almost guaranteed that I will have to hand-edit every line to turn a jumbled mess into something that's easy to read. For a very long time, about the only way to do neat quoting is to jam all the quote symbols to the left, with no blank spaces before any of them, and one blank space to the right of the last one. Do anything else, and it becomes an eyesore. I wish mail programmers would get their act together, they've had decades to learn what doesn't work. Good example: >>>> oldest quote of a prior message, with several lines of text >>>> where each line is neatly wrapped AFTER the damn quote >>>> indicators, not in the middle of them >>> next oldest quote >>> replying to the previous >>> messages >> then the next > and the last Shitty quoting example: > >> > > old quote >> > | > oldish quote }| a reply, maybe the latest, but you can't tell > > > || oldish quote I've seen very few mail (or news clients) that could do decent quoting (or even typing of your own message), none on Linux. There was Thor on the Amiga, eventually YAM got better. The Bat! and Forte Agent on Windows. PINE could do it quite well, but it was a text-only system that was a nightmare to use in other ways. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 23:49:17 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
