128192 - hard to find the option not to compose messages in html

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 209744

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[u32858]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205
BuildID:    2002020511


"Send format"
When sending messages in HTML format and one or more recipients are not listed
as being able to recieve HTML:

Its unclear what this exactly means, is sounds like some messages will be sent
as html, there whould be a way to configure it to never send an email as HMTL.

Convert the message to plain text should be default. IMO this should be set
during the creation of the profile

It is difficult to see a way how to send messages only in text format.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click Preferences -> Mail and news -> Send format
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Comment 1

[timeless]

this is hidden in account settings
load mail, edit>mail account settings
select the relevant account
[x] Compose messages in HTML format.

jglick: lots of people have trouble finding this.

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

confirming; I have a hard time finding the right panel to flip the checkbox
(even after all this time)

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm going to dupe this to a later bug which has a lot of discussion.  See in 
particular bug 209744 comment 9, which suggestion has been followed in Moz 1.5;
I'm going to suggest there that *that* bug be closed as WorksForMe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209744 ***