** Observed with 8/3/99 Win32 M9 necko build and also with 7/28/99 Win32 pre-necko 8.5 build ** This bug is probably related to Bugs 5492 and 5493 which are assigned to Jean-f. However, it was not clear to me if these 2 bugs addressed the issue below. So I decided to file a new one. The problem seems to be limited to only POP3 local mail file. Somehow we are not creating a reply/forward message header & body correctly from a local message box. How to reprodice this problem: 0. Get the test mailbox file mentioned in the URL window. Unzip it and place it in a local/POP3 mail fodler. 1. Click on each of the 3 messages and engage Reply or Forward button. This bring up a new mail compose window with auto-quoting of the original message. 2. Now observe A) the Subject header, B) message window header and C) message window body. 3. Note that for each of the 3 messages, Latin 1 high-bit charcters display OK in A) but not in B) or C). Now copy the same messages to an IMAP folder. And repeat the steps 1 and 2. This time you will see that: 3a. Latin 1 high-bit characters display OK in A), B), and C) for each of the 3 messages. Clearly we are doing something wrong in constructing message in POP3 protocol.

Changed teh QA contact to momoi.

I used Plain Text mail-send option in reporting the bug described above. I have not tried the HTML option yet. Wil report on it next.

** Re-checked with 8/16/99 Win32 M9 build ** This is a status update for this bug: Using the Plain Text-send option: After a message created and sent as in Steps 0-3 above, the received mail shows the following: Latin 1 high-bit charcters display OK in A)and C), but not in B. Using the HTML-send option: Latin 1 high-bit charcters display OK in A)and C). The message header quote as you find in B) for Plain text mail does not exist in HTML mail. So the question is, is "inline quoting", which seems to be what is happening for Plain Text, working for HTML mail? Also how do I turn off the inline quoting so that I don't quote the Message header into the body text under Plain text? It could be that if we can in-line quote in HTML mail, we may see the same problem. The problem seems to be that the headers quoted in body text are not being converted from UTF-8 to the proper Mail-send charset.

(target milestone is M11 or M12 - add to mail beta tracking bug)

Reassign to rhp

Bulk change to assigned. - rhp

Status update: The problem as described in my 8/16/99 note still occurs with 10/19/99 M11 Win32 build.

I eliminated the [POP only] from the summary line since this problem is generally true when you have plain text option set whether or not the server is IMAP or POP.

We dont't do inline quoting any more for Plain Text reply. That is we don't quote the headers in the Text body in reply. We still do inline quoting in Forward, and there is a bug in it but this is covered by a new Bug 17034. Unless someone objects, I'm inclined to mark this bug Worksforme very soon.

I forgot to add that that quoting characters in corrupted in Plain text body is convered by Bug 15465.

In an effort to keep my bug list clean, I'll mark this one WORKSFORME and focus on 15465. - rhp

So verified.