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Did you know you can't put the string "origin*l message" in a post (replacing "*" with "a" or you see the following:

I am now typing

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  • I've filed this under an internal ID of 3672 to be triaged.  Thanks for the feedback!

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  • What?

    myTV community

  • That is mostly in use for the Mail Gateway functionality - when someone replies to a post via email,

    e.g. you'll get a thread that looks like the following

    Original Post

    -----

    First Response
    ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
    Original Post

    ---
    Second Response
    ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
    First Response
    ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
    Original Post

    I'm sure you can immagine by the 5th response, it can get pretty unreadable.  So CS tries to determine where the email response is, so converts the thread to look like

    Original Post

    ----

    First Response
    Click To Show Quoted Text

    ---

    Second Response
    Click To Show Quoted Text

     

    Does that explain this better?

  • Alex Crome
    That is mostly in use for the Mail Gateway functionality - when someone replies to a post via email,

    ...

    So CS tries to determine where the email response is, so converts the thread to look like

    Original Post

    ----

    First Response
    Click To Show Quoted Text

    ---

    Umm, laudable.  But it seems it is doing those checks in the wrong place if it is doing substitutions on text users type anytime they type "origin*ll message", or it isn't doing them cleverly enough.  Rather than just triggering on those words it should be looking for the more complete syntax of the quoted messages before corrupting users' posts. 

    Seems to be a bug.

  • I see what you mean now - I'll get this logged to be looked into. 

    In the meantime, If you're not using mail gateway, you can always remove the CSModule which does this formatting - it's the QuoteProcessorModule module. If you do have Mail Gateway installed but rarely use it, you could still remove the module, although do be aware you might lose useful funcationality.

  • I've filed this under an internal ID of 3672 to be triaged.  Thanks for the feedback!