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Re: New KMail maintainer
by jms on Monday 18/Feb/2008, @02:48

Hi,

Can you tell if there is any plan to add the "reply to html mail" feature.
I (and others) have been waiting for years for this IMHO critical feature.
Indeed, when kmail receives an htnl formatted mail it is impossible to reply without destroying the whole formatting (a first step could be to enhance the html to text processing).
In a business environment, kmail is not a common mail client (guess what is the de facto standart...). Nearly every mail is html formatted (with colored text, bold text, itemize,...).
Using color, bold and itemize *is* useful especially when the mail is address to a group of participants that choose a different color for replying, or use bold to enhance part of a large mail.
It is rather embarrassing to reply to these mails with kmail. You end up screwing the whole thread and you get a reputation: "that stupid linux geek is not even able to answer mail correctly, why on earth does he insist on using this".
Well because, I'm used to *nix like OS, but yes I agree this problem with kmail is unfortunate. I'm pretty sure it will be addressed, at least I've seen some guy saying this a couple of years ago...

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Re: New KMail maintainer
by Thomas McGuire on Monday 18/Feb/2008, @11:07

>Can you tell if there is any plan to add the "reply to html mail" feature.
Well, I don't plan adding something like this for 4.1 myself.
Not because I am against it (I know that proper HTML support is important), but simply because there are lots of other things to do and time&developers are short. For example fixing the tons of regressions the Qt4 port introduced and working on refactoring to make the Akonadi port easier.

However, maybe someone else will code it, for example Edwin, who already introduced HTML signatures recently.

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