1839816 - Forward or reply to an mail in plain text with spaces for display

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267832

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[adrien.rybarczyk]

Attachment: List.eml

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Bug present in 102 and 115

1. Create a plain text mail (see attached mail)
2. Forward or reply to plain text mail

Actual results:

The multiple spaces have all been removed. If, in the case of mail, this represents a table, the content becomes unreadable.

Expected results:

A <pre> tag is missing to keep the text preformatted in this case.

If, for example, we copy the text from the mail and paste it into the transfer text area, the content will be properly formatted because the <pre> tag will have been added automatically.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Bug 1839226 might be related.

Comment 2

[betterbird.project+3]

For the attached message (attachment 9340455 [details]) the following is observed:
102 and 115: Forward loses the formatting, that's bug 810952 from 2012. You can use Shift+Forward to force a plaintext forward.
102 and 115: Reply to entire message works fine.
102: Reply with selection works fine.
115: Reply with selection loses formatting, that's bug 1839226.

Please edit the summary to: "Forward a mail in plain text with spaces for display loses formatting" and close as duplicate of bug 810952.

Comment 3

[betterbird.project+3]

Actually, bug 810952 is a dupe of bug 267832 from 2004.