[Tickets #1628] Re: Mail is cut when using dots as only char on a line
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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1628
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Ticket | 1628
Updated By | ahmn at novolog.dk
Summary | Mail is cut when using dots as only char on a line
Queue | IMP
Version | 4.0.2
Type | Bug
State | Not A Bug
Priority | 2. Medium
Milestone |
Patch |
Owners |
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ahmn at novolog.dk (2010-01-07 13:44) wrote:
I very much think this should be considered a bug. My sons teacher and
I wasted a lot of time because most of her email texts did not reach
me (she tried several times but copied some of the same text).
Eventually she printed one of the emails and delivered it by hand.
It turned out she had (accidentially I suppose) written a dot as the
only char on a line. The dot and everything following it was cut off
and of course she did not understand why and neither did I until I
found this thread.
I know of no other email clients behaving like this. I tested 3 email
clients (MS Outlook, GMail, and an other web mail client - all of them
both with HTML and plain text) and none of them behaves like this. I
admit that pressing . is a little faster than pressing e.g.
SHIFT+CTRL+END DEL but for most users this is a very annoying and
obscure behaviour. Please remove this "feature".
I don't have access to IMF myself, so I can't test a minimal example
and I obviously does not have an electronic version of the email
texts. But this is a reproduction of what must be the lines that
trigged the "feature" (the second letter in the line just before the
line with the single dot is the Danish letter ae concatenation - don't
know if it makes any difference):
[various texts]
Kære Anders
.
Godt nytår også til dig.
[much more text]
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