1259984 - "Compose messages in HTML format" dropped when "Edit Message as New"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: General, defect)

Description

[Raymond]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38
Build ID: 20150923195647

Steps to reproduce:

I have for my account Composition & Addressing, - "Compose messages in HTML format".
All  goes well ... when composing the html-formatting bar is present ... then I send the mail, and SM propose me to send in "html and plain text" or in "html only" or in "plain text only".
When I choose in "plain text only" .. the mail is sent in plain text only - so far, so good.
Then, per exemple I need to sent this mail to another friend, so I do "Message" - "Edit Message as New" ...
AND the html-formatting bar is NOT present evenwhile my option "Composition & Addressing" is "Compose messages in HTML format".
So I cannot add some html gadget for my "another friend".


Actual results:

html-formatting bar is NOT present when I use "Edit Message as new" when the original was sent in plain-text.


Expected results:

html-formatting bar MUST be present when doing "Edit Message as New" and that the option "Compose messages in HTML format" is SET.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Raymond from comment #0)
> Expected results:
> html-formatting bar MUST be present

@reporter:
Why? Please state Help contents, other software behavior or other arguments underpinning your expectation.

Comment 2

[Raymond]

Just to say that due to the fact that the option "Compose messages in HTML format" is SET I was expecting to have the html-formatting bar present.
So I can add html gadget.
Note: I have been told that because the original mail was sent in plain-text, the "Edit As New"-mail is not in the html format. However, I think that the transformation of a plain-text page into an html page must be easy.

Comment 3

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Raymond from comment #2)
> Note: I have been told ...

that's my argument why I think that the current behavior is intended. And I can not see much sense in using a plain text e-mail as template for a HTML mail.

But if you have good arguments for an enhancement (useful for many users) why SeaMonkey should be able to transform a plain text email to a html email you should submit an enhancement request in a separate bug report.

Comment 4

[Raymond]

Just to says that if it can be done when we do a "reply", it can be done when we do a "Edit Message as New" - This is not an enhancement, it's just solving a bug.