275804 - Changing mail account (from) should change HTML/plain-text composition format

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Onkar Shinde]

I have two accounts set up. First is my company account, using default
composition as HTML and is set as default account. Second account is personal,
default composition is plain text.

Consider I wish to send a mail by clicking a mailto link on web page. This opens
up a new mail window where "From:" field indicates I am using default account
(company account). But since this is my personal mail I wish to use seconday
account and change it in the 'From' field. But this doesn't change my
composition format from HTML to plain text which is supposed to be account specific.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This can't happen until it's possible to switch from the plain text editor to 
the HTML composer.  See bug 216132 comment 1 (thunderbird).

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

confirming

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 283178 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Stewart Adam]

I figured I should put this here, if this should be its own bug let me know.

In Shredder/Thunderbird 3.0a3 when I change the message type in "Options > Format" from plain text to HTML or vice versa, the message type does seem to change as expected but the font doesn't change - In other words, to get plain text with the plain text font I have to select "Fixed width" in HTML mode before I change the message format from the Options menu.

Comment 7

[rsx11m]

Extending summary per suggestion in bug 491371 for better searchability.

Comment 9

[Luke Plant]

Given that bug 491371 has been marked a duplicate of this bug, I believe it is impossible to argue that this is an 'enhancement' and not a 'bug'. The current state is that either:

1) I cannot set my primary identity to not use HTML by default.
2) OR I cannot compose HTML messages with any identity.

Please could we promote to bug. This would also improve searchability - in looking for this bug I certainly was not going to look at the many greyed-out 'enhancement' tickets.