Bug 3355

Summary: Incorrect quoting when replying to a news article that contains <<some text in here>>
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: Marvin <marvint.roebuck>
Component: NNTPAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.11.1   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description Marvin 2014-12-22 02:07:41 UTC 
When replying to a news article that contained <<some text inside less-than and great-than signs>>  The quoting mechanism the creates the reply incorrectly inserts "signs>>" on each line following the line that ends with <<some text inside less-than and great-than signs>>

Example of original news article:
Line 1: The quoting mechanism in claws breaks with <<some text inside less-than and great-than signs>>

Line 2: Maybe I'm lucky to encounter so many strange bugs in claws.

Line 3: Hopefully the maintainers appreciate that some of us take the
time to report bugs

Line 4: It's not a trivial amount of time to report bugs.


The reply will look like so:


Line 1: > The quoting mechanism in claws breaks with <<some text inside less-than and great-than

Line 2: > signs>> Maybe I'm "lucky" to encounter so many strange bugs in claws.

Line 3: > signs>> Hopefully the maintainers appreciate that some of us take the
time to report bugs

Line 4: > signs>> It's not a trivial amount of time to report bugs.

Notice that signs>> is repeated on each line of the reply until a blank line is encountered.
Comment 1 Paul 2014-12-22 10:01:55 UTC 
Tried in numerous ways to reproduce this, (which, incidentally probably took longer than the time you spent reporting it), and I cannot reproduce this. Either your description is lacking a vital piece of information or you are mistaken.
Comment 2 Marvin 2014-12-22 17:25:31 UTC 
If I save the original news article to disk line 1 looks like so

Line 1: The quoting mechanism in claws breaks with <<some text inside less-than and great-than signs>=\r\n


The file-saved headers include these:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Each saved line of text that is 75 chars or more ends with =\r\n or if you like =crlf

So in this case note that the signs>> would get split and the last > would begin line 2 in the reply. I think this is specific enough for you to reproduce this. I certainly can repro this here. All the lines in the original have 76 or more chars.
Comment 3 Paul 2014-12-22 17:54:33 UTC 
Attaching an example message always works better than trying to describe the message. A description is easy to misinterpret by the reader, and it's easy for the describer to miss out critical details. So please attach a message file that exhibits this behaviour for you.
Comment 4 Marvin 2014-12-22 22:12:04 UTC 
I'd place my money on the problem living inside quoted-printable.c.

I don't have the original anymore.
Comment 5 Paul 2015-01-19 09:46:59 UTC 
Marvin, No need to change from WORKSFORME to WONTFIX. The former is accurate, the latter is wrong.