On Tuesday 16 December 2003 12:55, Elton Woo wrote: > True, I find that if I select "reply" it quotes the entire message, > whereas with other mailers, I could do "reply quoted" (i.e, reply > to the *highlighted* section of text ONLY). ... maybe I'm doing this > wrong, but the only way to past only the quoted text is to do > "create new" which implies that I also have to manually renter the > subject line, prepended with a "re", etc., etc... There is actually a setting that you can tell Evolution to not quote the original email. You hit reply and it gives you a blank email, but uses all the right headers and subject line. > Jesse, would you recommend Sylpheed? I've never tried it... I used to use it (and it's where I first found the "highlight-quote"), but it got somewhat unstable for a while, then there was the whole gtk1-gtk2 move, and spell checker issues as well. I'm not sure the current state of Sylpheed. > > Does anybody else think this is a reasonable RFE? > > I would toss in my two Canuck cents to vote "yea"... :-( > > I've seen so much positive comments on Evolution in this > and the shrike-list, that I thought I'd give it a try, but > this disappoints me. The other thing, I've just found out, > is that unlike some other mailers, you cannot selectively > delete some of the messages in the trash folder. Huh, I hadn't tried that yet. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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