348226 - Forwarded message is always "pre-formatted" even if preference "editor.quotesPreformatted" is set to false (no line breaks within paragraphs, resulting in long lines).

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249093

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Thomas Eckert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (20060719)

Forwarding a message always is (HTML)-formatted as <pre> even if preference "editor.quotesPreformatted" is set to "false" (which is normally said to produce a simple "<span>"-formatting). So there are no line breaks any more within paragraphs - resulting in long lines. I think the "reply" prefs are not taken into account but are set to (output from "grep -r "reply" *" in ".thunderbird")
   prefs.js:user_pref("mail.identity.id1.reply_to", "");
   prefs.js:user_pref("mail.identity.id2.reply_to", "");
   prefs.js:user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_originalmessage", "");
   prefs.js:user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 0);
whereas my (changed) "quot" prefs are:
   prefs.js:user_pref("mail.identity.id1.auto_quote", false);
   prefs.js:user_pref("mailnews.quotingPrefs.version", 1);
The "flowed" prefs are all default. Are there other prefs involved? Maybe the "quot" ones should be used also in forwarding?
The problem only appeared in latest TB 1.5.0.5 version, I think, at least only lately. 
Remark. Around the time when the problem first occured I had a crash locking the profile which I could only restore by creating a new one and copying all files from the former to the new one and then deleting the old one per "thunderbird --profilemanager". But I think that doesn't relate.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. (See prefs above.)
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Actual Results:  
Haven't tried to reproduce it on other machines or accounts (profiles).

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref bug 249093 -- I describe this symptom at that bug, but maybe this should be broken out as a separate one.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I've decided not to maintain the two symptoms separately.

Incidentally, I don't think editor.quotesPreformatted is used at all.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249093 ***