Closed Bug 1407566 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

HTML not formatted as plain text if single multipart

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 348045

People

(Reporter: greg-mozilla-bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

Using View > Message Body As > Plain Text, messages that were sent as Content-Type: text/html are converted to plain text for display. However, messages that were sent as Content-Type: multipart/alternative and containing a SINGLE part that is Content-Type: text/html are not converted and display as blank. The second type should be treated the same way as the first. Notes: 1. It is legal for a multipart message to contain a single part. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html > The use of the multipart Content-Type with only a single body part may be > useful in certain contexts, and is explicitly permitted. 2. Also (perhaps as an aside here), there may be more than one level of nesting: > The use of a Content-Type of multipart in a body part within another multipart > entity is explicitly allowed. 3. Possibly related bugs, although they are not always entirely clear: bug 447887, bug 232275, bug 629681, bug 817360 Hopefully the present bug is now a clear statement of both (one) problem and its expected resolution.
Sorry, may be duplicate of bug 348045: awaiting answer to question there.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
BTW, I closed all the bugs mentioned in comment #0 as a spring cleaning exercise.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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