Tickets :: Comment on [#1628] Mail is cut when using dots as only char on a line

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Comment	> I very much think this should be considered a bug. My sons teacher > and I wasted a lot of time because most of her email texts did not > reach me (she tried several times but copied some of the same text). > Eventually she printed one of the emails and delivered it by hand. > > It turned out she had (accidentially I suppose) written a dot as the > only char on a line. The dot and everything following it was cut off > and of course she did not understand why and neither did I until I > found this thread. > I know of no other email clients behaving like this. I tested 3 email > clients (MS Outlook, GMail, and an other web mail client - all of > them both with HTML and plain text) and none of them behaves like > this. I admit that pressing . is a little faster than pressing e.g. > SHIFT+CTRL+END DEL but for most users this is a very annoying and > obscure behaviour. Please remove this "feature". > > I don't have access to IMF myself, so I can't test a minimal example > and I obviously does not have an electronic version of the email > texts. But this is a reproduction of what must be the lines that > trigged the "feature" (the second letter in the line just before the > line with the single dot is the Danish letter ae concatenation - > don't know if it makes any difference): > > [various texts] > > Kære Anders > . > Godt nytår også til dig. > [much more text]
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