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Bug 623727 - Slight mangling of start of message body for saved draft messages
Slight mangling of start of message body for saved draft messages
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.28.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-07 07:17 UTC by Nick Jenkins
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:57 UTC
See Also:
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Description Nick Jenkins 2010-07-07 07:17:48 UTC
Observing two slight manglings of the start of the message body, for a saved draft email in Evo 2.28.1 and 2.28.3.

Steps to reproduce:
* File -> New -> Mail message.
* Type some random characters (for the "To" field), press Tab key.
* Type some random characters (for the "Subject" field), press Tab key.
* Enter as the very first line of the message body "abcdefghijklmnop" (without any line breaks before this text or inside it, and without the quotes).
* Close the draft, and say "Save message".
* Reopen the draft message.

What should happen:
The message body should be exactly the same as when it was open before (i.e. just "abcdefghijklmnop" without any line breaks before it or inside it).

What actually happens:
I observe 2 possible results. The result is _either_ a):
"a|
bcdefghijklmnop"
... where "|" marks the cursor focus. I.e. first character, then the cursor/focus, then line break, then rest of the first line.
... or the result is b):
"
|
abcdefghijklmnop"
(i.e. an additional line break, then the cursor/focus, then an additional line break, then the first line).

In case a) I use an account/from address _with_ a signature enabled, and in case b) I use an account/from address with _no_ signature enabled. 

Additional information:
* In gconf, I do have /apps/evolution/mail/composer/no_signature_delim set to true, as per bug 551470 (not sure if that's relevant or not).
* The draft emails are plain text emails. I tested 2.28.1 with HTML mails (as well as plain text), and the same thing happened.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2021-05-19 11:57:02 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
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and create a new bug report ticket at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.