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Copy time and users name when copy paste conversation.
As far as I can se this was removed due to the fact that some people copy paste code directly into production system where time and usernames caused problems.
However in the normal world it not to uncommon to quote, even between organisations or even mail.
And then you REALLY REALLY need to have time and user name.
This was also what was default until recently, and currently everyone is sending screenshots, something that ofcourse is not a good solution.
In order to make everyone happy, make an option in settings to not copy username/time and make it unset as default, those who need it will find it for sure, the rest will get the expected "what you mark is what you copy" behavior.
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it makes sense to have the option to include usernames and timestamps when copying messages, especially for quoting in emails or documentation. Removing it entirely just forces people to use clunky workarounds like screenshots.
A simple setting like “Include name and time when copying messages” (off by default) would satisfy both sides.
Hello Andreas,
I understand the pain.
One workaround I could find was to right click - share to outlook, that keeps the timestamp and author information.
Hi and thanks for the answer.
Even if it's alot harder than ctrl-c + ctrl-v it's actually usable.
The biggest problem is that it corrupts the timestamp by replacing it with "10minutes ago" or "20hours ago" etc. A rather strange aproach because I can't really see any situation when it would desirable to have that in a mail.
It makes it harder to establish for instance a timeline when problems have occured, who noticed etc.
