Stripping Quotes from plain text email replies

[SySagar]

So I was using the latest app to have a kind of conversation and I found that if sender is sending message as a reply it is exactly appearing someting like this. Considering this is a conversation I think it would be better if we can only put the message only rather than the separate metadata.

[BlankParticle]

I am pretty much sure you edited the reply while sending from gmail otherwise it should automatically strip the reply

[SySagar]

I simply hit the reply and wrote some text.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a6bba0a3-120e-4211-ae0e-04509c397bd0

[BlankParticle]

something might be off with your gmail setup, It works as expected on my side

[BlankParticle]

Also that part is not metadata, its part of email, we have mechanism which strip out that part, but if your email is not formatted properly it fails

[SySagar]

ok So I think I got the issue. When sending email we can either set a plain text or rich text. In case of rich text it works but in case of plain text it doesnt.

see both these types os senidng one with '>' and other with '|':

the output:

I think somehow we should handle this internally becuase I checked some of the emails provide palin text as default or maybe manually somebody might have put. Apart from these two cases I didn't find anything else.

[BlankParticle]

There is nothing we can do with plain text, the internal library cant handle every edge case as there is no standard to follow

Still I will keep this issue open for tracking to see if we can do anything

[OmarMcAdam]

@SySagar this is what we use to strip: https://github.com/un/packages/tree/main/packages/mailtools maybe you spot something we missed

[SySagar]

sure will look into this.