Post reply: Add "Quote message" button

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Hello,

if I reply to a message in the forums, it would be nice if I could quote the message I am replying to. So I could better refer to the part of the message I am answering.

IMHO, this feature should be another button besides [Post message] and [Reset]. Quoting should not be done by default, since many people do not care about correct quoting nowadays, so this would increase the size of the reply without any real value.

Cheers, Jörg

We have this planned for an interim feature release this fall.

Hi Nic,

if your message had a In-Reply-To field as this:

In-Reply-To: 20040909143651.2D7581B7AB0@pe2.angel.net

by mail client would make up a correct thread view.

Could you please add values for References: and In-Reply-To: header fields?

Thanks, Jörg

The forums hand messages off to Postfix for delivery, and Postfix doesn’t make up a Message-ID until later in the process; it passes back only its internal queue ID. I’ll look into either getting the Message-ID back from Postfix, or forcing one onto the message in the SMTP conversation.

Jörg, “Reply to this message” now “quotes” the previous message in the website’s discussion forums.

Hello,

if I reply to a message in the forums, it would be nice if I could quote
the message I am replying to. So I could better refer to the part of the
message I am answering.

IMHO, this feature should be another button besides [Post message] and
[Reset]. Quoting should not be done by default, since many people do
not care about correct quoting nowadays, so this would increase the size
of the reply without any real value.

Cheers, Jörg

Jörg, “Reply to this message” now “quotes” the previous message in the
website’s discussion forums.

IMHO, this feature should be another button besides [Post message] and
[Reset]. Quoting should not be done by default, since many people do
not care about correct quoting nowadays, so this would increase the
size of the reply without any real value.

OK, thanks.