# "Broken" quoting of/into email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [6 يوليو 2017، 3:25ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705 "2017-07-06T03:25:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![hudrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9fc29f/32.png) [@hudrob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hudrob)\
**Post date:** [6 يوليو 2017، 4:33ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705/6 "2017-07-06T04:33:23Z")

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Hi Jeff,

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I am still unclear what exactly is broken about it – I am afraid that reply does not help me at all.

The issue is that when replying via email, the Discourse system seems to merge in-line comments with the quoted text. If you provide me with an email, I’m sure I can provide you with some examples (what was sent verses what Discourse recognised)

> [@mpalmer](#):
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> People want to be able to inline-quote via e-mail, with a similar end result as via the web interface (highlight, click “quote”). It’s really unlikely we’d be able to get the results quite the same (extracting the [quote] metadata would be fiendishly tricky), but we could at least recognise common HTML quoting styles, and transmogrify them into the equivalent of how \> gets handled in markdown:

That’s _exactly_ what we’re looking for. This would make for some very happy users within my organisation. 😃

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