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Bug 417470 - handle outlook's broken localized RE:
handle outlook's broken localized RE:
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 661087
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-03-12 14:13 UTC by Johannes Rohr
Modified: 2012-06-19 11:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Johannes Rohr 2007-03-12 14:13:50 UTC 
Non-English versions of MS Outlook have the nasty habit of using broken localisations of "RE:" in mail replies. The German version by default uses "AW:". As other mailers don't recognise this as a replacement for "RE:", this results in hideous subject lines such as: "RE: AW: Re: AW: RE: your mail"

Yes, Microsoft is to blame for this, yes, they should fix this broken behaviour. But until we see http://bugzilla.microsoft.com, I wonder if Evolution developers might consider adding a  workaround that Thunderbird already has: There is the (unofficial) config variable "mailnews.localizedRE", which can be set to something like "AW, Aw", which will then be handled by Thunderbird just as "RE". I would be fine if this was just accessible via gconf-editor.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-04-01 14:51:31 UTC 
you want to provide a patch? :-)

Feel free to also comment on bug 424818.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2012-06-19 11:29:48 UTC 
We are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. 
It should be solved in version 3.4 - see bug 661087 comment 5 and comment 6.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 661087 ***