Closed
Bug 707778
Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
When sending email, Thunderbird adds a space character to lines starting with whitespace
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 608514
People
(Reporter: christian, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 Build ID: 20111108090024 Steps to reproduce: I use plain-text email, and I often compose messages that have bullet points, like this one: - Here's a bullet point that I manually indent in subsequent lines to line up. Actual results: Thunderbird decides to tuck an additional space character on to the lines already starting with whitespace. So basically, what I sent like this ... -<spc>Here's a bullet point that I manually <spc><spc>indent in subsequent lines to line up. ... turns into this, in both the sent message and the corresponding received one: -<spc>Here's a bullet point that I manually <spc><spc><spc>indent in subsequent lines to line up. Expected results: Thunderbird should keep my line-start whitespace as I intended it.
See bug 608514 which seems to apply here, i.e., in plain-text composition mode and without format=flowed disabled, this should be the standard-compliant encoding. Some e-mail clients (like Outlook) ignore format-flowed and show the leading space as is present in the encoding, though they are not supposed to. In Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > Config Editor, toggle the preference mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed to "false" and you should see the space removed. Thunderbird displays either encoding (with or without flowed format) as expected.
Whiteboard: dupeme
Thanks, you're right regarding the adjustment to mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed, it helped. I suppose when you say "as expected" you mean the extra space is expected when send_plaintext_flowed is true, because I do see the extra space both in sent and received messages in Thunderbird.
Yes, the display in Thunderbird itself is correct with the leading space removed. Since there doesn't seem to be a bug, I'm closing this report as a duplicate.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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