SELECT ALL option gone in iOS 5 Mail?

[patent10021]

It sure appears that the only way to copy an entire email is to touch/hold > select and drag the handles up and down until all is blue. Not an efficienet way to do it, but it works.

I tried the white space thing and it didn't work for me. Always something became highlighted in blue - even the tapped white space turned blue. Oh well.

In the statement notification email from ameriprise I tried that with it wouldn't work, I think because there was a background image so the dialog where there was no text changed to the save picture dialog. So the selecting text and moving to an area where there is no text selected gets around that but doesn't trigger the save picture dialog, I guess because you started working with text.

You need to be very careful with the selection. I know it's a pain but it DOES work.

**I just found out how to get the select all option every time until this bug is fixed. I've done it 5 times in a row now. You hold down the cursor towards the end of any sentence. As it turns out, it's ok if you select text. But then what you need to do is drag the cursor/magnifying glass towards the right off of the sentence...DON'T LET GO YET...KEEP HOLDING DOWN and let go whenever you get the cursor to a white point WITH NO BLUE HIGHLIGHTING PRESENT. Then SELECT ALL option is coming up for me every time. It's quite finicky.

1st pic-blue highlighting is bad.
2nd pic-dragged off of the trailing end of a sentence
3rd pic-got the select all option (全選択)