1686150 - When displaying quoted plain text messages: 'Color' setting ignored

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[mail2mg]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #758332 +++

The color set in Preferences -> Display -> Formatting -> "When displaying quoted plain text messages: 'Color:'" is not used for displaying the quoted plain text in a plain text reply. Instead, the default of '#0000ff' (blue) is used instead of the user provided setting in mail.citation_color (here #5182E4).

In the provided screenshot, you will see that the setting box for choosing the color in Preferences -> Display -> Formatting -> "When displaying quoted plain text messages: 'Color:'" DOES properly reflect the mail.citation_color setting -- it is just not properly used by the compose window when hitting 'reply'

In the screenshot, you can see that the quoted plain text in the compose window is #0000ff despite the user selected color. On dark background, this makes the quoted text very difficult to read.

However the colors are set in the compose window for reply text, it should be set to the mail.citation_color and not $0000ff

Comment 1

[mail2mg]

This bug is still present in Version 68 of Thunderbird.