[horde] Fwd: Email text copied twice in reply

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Mon Jul 8 18:34:13 UTC 2013


Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting simon at simonandkate.net:
>>
>>> Quoting simon at simonandkate.net> Quoting Simon B  
>>> <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>> On 8 Jul 2013 14:45,
>>>> <simon at simonandkate.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Forgive the top posting in this, but I have no idea where it will
>>>>> actually end up in the email...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See issue below - I have noticed recently when responding to emails over
>>>>> ActiveSync, whether from iPad or my S4, that my reply is often  
>>>>> hard to find
>>>>> in the quoted text, and that the original text is repeated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The forwarded email below was simply me replying to the 'when I reply to
>>>>> an email...' line with a single line ('or this') placed manually at the
>>>>> bottom of the reply email. The compose window in iPad does not replicate
>>>>> what is actually sent, you only see a single quote, but double  
>>>>> is sent. If
>>>>> I leave the iPad top-posting, then the email is quoted first, then my
>>>>> reply, then the email again, making it difficult to find.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does not happen from Imp, only over AS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ay ideas? Something to do with the preference about where replies are
>>>>> placed?
>>>>>
>>>>> I complained about this a while ago. From my android device  
>>>>> people thought
>>>>> I was sending empty emails as replies since the text was inserted all the
>>>>> way at the bottom..
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't remember the explanation and didn't quite understand it. I just
>>>>> gave up replying to long mails from my phone or forwarding them  
>>>>> and adding
>>>>> my comments if I absolutely had to.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since then I've gained a iOS device for work, iPhone 4s,  and  
>>>>> that doesn't
>>>>> have an issue, so I assumed it was a client issue on android since I use
>>>>> enhanced email, but I haven't had time to test that theory (using stock
>>>>> might not help, it might be a issue with the AS version).
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>> On 08/07/2013, at 10:52 PM, Simon B <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8 Jul 2013 14:45, <simon at simonandkate.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Forgive the top posting in this, but I have no idea where it  
>>>>>> will actually end up in the email...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See issue below - I have noticed recently when responding to  
>>>>>> emails over ActiveSync, whether from iPad or my S4, that my  
>>>>>> reply is often hard to find in the quoted text, and that the  
>>>>>> original text is repeated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The forwarded email below was simply me replying to the 'when I  
>>>>>> reply to an email...' line with a single line ('or this')  
>>>>>> placed manually at the bottom of the reply email. The compose  
>>>>>> window in iPad does not replicate what is actually sent, you  
>>>>>> only see a single quote, but double is sent. If I leave the  
>>>>>> iPad top-posting, then the email is quoted first, then my  
>>>>>> reply, then the email again, making it difficult to find.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does not happen from Imp, only over AS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ay ideas? Something to do with the preference about where  
>>>>>> replies are placed?
>>>>>
>>>>> I complained about this a while ago. From my android device  
>>>>> people thought I was sending empty emails as replies since the  
>>>>> text was inserted all the way at the bottom..
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't remember the explanation and didn't quite understand it.  
>>>>> I just gave up replying to long mails from my phone or  
>>>>> forwarding them and adding my comments if I absolutely had to.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since then I've gained a iOS device for work, iPhone 4s,  and  
>>>>> that doesn't have an issue, so I assumed it was a client issue  
>>>>> on android since I use enhanced email, but I haven't had time to  
>>>>> test that theory (using stock might not help, it might be a  
>>>>> issue with the AS version).
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Replying on iPad here, and I see from the top of the compose  
>>>> screen my email, your reply under that, and now I am responding  
>>>> at the bottom. Nothing else.
>>>>
>>>> Let's see what gets sent.
>>>>
>>>> Simon.
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>>>>
>>>> Replying on iPad here, and I see from the top of the compose  
>>>> screen my  email, your reply under that, and now I am responding  
>>>> at the bottom.  Nothing else.
>>>>
>>>> Let's see what gets sent.
>>>>
>>>> Simon.
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>>>>
>>>
>>> I've deleted most of that for clarity, but that last email shows  
>>> what it's doing... Full text twice is sent, despite not being  
>>> composed that way. If I leave reply at the top (iPad default) it  
>>> ends up in the middle of the quotes.
>>
>>
>> It sounds like the iPad is sending the full body text, but as a  
>> SMARTREPLY (which  by definition, means the server must append (or  
>> prepend) the original body text). Please post a sync log showing a  
>> reply that exhibits this behavior.
>>
>> FWIW, I don't see this behavior on any of my devices.
>
> I lied. I don't see it on my first generation iPad. However, my  
> daughter's iPhone 4s *does* show this. It looks like it is sending  
> the entire email body as a SMARTREPLY, but is sending a tag that  
> looks like it's supposed to tell the server to treat it as a regular  
> SENDMAIL command. We were ignoring this tag. Fix will be up shortly.

Fixed in Git.
-- 
mike

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