Bug 108038

Summary:	KMail fails to insert the message headers and "Forwarded message" banner when forwarding some mails
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot just after clicking the Forward (inline) button on the selected message Source of message forwarded in Attachment #11563 (as saved by KMail)

Description Tristan Miller 2005-06-24 07:10:48 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Reproducibility: Always, but only with certain e-mails

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select a message
2. Message->Forward->Inline
3. Message composer pops up

Observed behaviour:
4. The message is reproduced verbatim in the message composer, with no header indicating it is a forwarded message.  The "--------------------" footer and my signature are displayed at the bottom of the message, however.

Expected behaviour:
4. Message in composer should be preceded by the following text:


----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Blah
Date: Thursday 23 June 2005 16:43
From: Foo <foo@bar.com>
To: Bar <bar@foo.com>

See the attached screenshot for an example.  I will also attach the message which triggers this bug.

Comment 1 Tristan Miller 2005-06-24 07:11:30 UTC

Created attachment 11563 [details]
Screenshot just after clicking the Forward (inline) button on the selected message

Comment 2 Tristan Miller 2005-06-24 07:13:38 UTC

Created attachment 11564 [details]
Source of message forwarded in Attachment #11563 [details] (as saved by KMail)

Comment 3 Tristan Miller 2005-06-26 10:11:51 UTC

Thiago, why did you change the status from "bug" to "wishlist"?  The "Forwarded Message" delimiter and the message headers are inserted for almost every other message one forwards.  The fact that they are not inserted for some messages suggests that this functionality is simply broken.

Comment 4 Thiago Macieira 2005-06-26 17:24:31 UTC

I've never seen "Forwarded Message" be added in KMail, so it's a new feature wish.

Comment 5 Tristan Miller 2005-06-27 10:55:57 UTC

I think you might be misunderstanding this bug report, Thiago.  KMail normally inserts the line "------------Forwarded Message--------------" when forwarding a message inline.  This is not a new feature; AFAIK KMail has *always* done this.  Therefore if KMail does not insert the line on a particular forwarded message, then it is malfunctioning.

I'm not sure I can make this any clearer, but if you still don't understand then let me know and I'll try.

Regards,
Tristan

Comment 6 Thiago Macieira 2005-06-28 02:54:07 UTC

I understood what you meant. But I've never seen KMail add "Forwarded Message" to the emails, when forwarding. It might be a bug, really.

Checking the code seems to confirm what you said.

Comment 7 Tristan Miller 2005-08-26 09:14:51 UTC

Confirming bug still exists in KDE 3.4.2

Comment 8 Andreas Gungl 2005-08-26 20:48:15 UTC

The problem might depend on a ceratin message structure. If I forward (inline) the last comment received via the kmail-devel list, I get the "--- Forwarded Message ---" text.
Please check, if it works for you for some messages, but does not for others.

Comment 9 Sridhar Dhanapalan 2007-05-14 12:46:25 UTC

This looks like the same problem as Bug 140549. I am experiencing this in Ubuntu 7.04.

Comment 10 Tristan Miller 2007-06-06 18:17:31 UTC

Confirming bug still exists in KDE 3.5.7

Comment 11 Jonathan Marten 2007-07-05 18:04:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140549 ***