[Evolution-users] Replying by selecting text not working anymore?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2025-10-07 at 15:42 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-users
wrote:
> About the messages you see this with, is it HTML only, or also plain
> text? Any pattern or all-or-nothing?
> 
> I tried it here, both with an RPM version of the 3.58.0 and with the
> Flathub.org version, but it did not reproduce the problem. As I
> mentioned earlier, the composer settings, default account, accounts'
> signatures, message source format, all these things can play a role
> here.

I apologize for going radio-silent on this issue. Just to note, it
still happens to me. I'm currently running Evo 3.58.2.

As a reminder the problem is that if I select a subset of the message
and hit reply, the quoted text in the reply is first the selection but
then the entire message is also quoted.

I did a little bit of investigating and found this info:
 * It only happens for mail sent through Exchange, but not all such
   mail.
 * Messages I send from my IMAP accounts do NOT have the problem,
   regardless of where I receive them.
 * Messages I send from my Evolution IMAP account to my Exchange
   account, do NOT have the problem.
 * Messages I send from my Evolution Exchange account to EITHER my IMAP
   or Exchange accounts using HTML, DO have the problem.
 * Messages I send from my Evolution Exchange account using plain text
   do NOT have the problem.
 * Messages I send using the Outlook Webmail interface to my Exchange
   account (HTML) do NOT have the problem
 * I have received HTML email from others to my Exchange account from
   other mail clients (I don't know for sure which ones) and some of
   them DO see the problem and others DO NOT see the problem, so it's
   not just an Evolution composer issue.

I looked at the mail headers etc. for the different messages and I
don't see anything odd about them.

Milan I will forward you privately some test emails I've sent to myself
that both do and do not show the problem. Maybe you will see something
interesting in them.