[horde] Fwd: Email text copied twice in reply
simon at simonandkate.net
simon at simonandkate.net
Mon Jul 8 22:21:44 UTC 2013
>>>>>>> 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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>>>>
>>>> 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
>
I can confirm this is fixed by your new release of AS Mike.
Thank you for a very prompt fix! :)
Simon.
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