1855235 - TB 115 - incorrect parsing of quoted printable, especially HTML mails, Style tag

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0

Steps to reproduce:

Send by command line tool (any) HTML mails, as did so often before.

Actual results:

HTML is not (longer) parsed correctly. Especially STYLE tag (mostly within a SPAN tag) seems not longer to be interpreted. No font size, no style like italic.

Expected results:

Display mail as usual, follow all programmed rules.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

How is Thunderbird called from the command line tool?

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Excuse me, but…
What is not understandable in line, “Send by command line tool (any) HTML mails”? Mails were sent out, and ThunderBird will receive them.
How to get the idea to launch ThunderBird via a command line? In any manor ThunderBird is started, it will not parse such mails correctly.

Markus Erich

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Oh I misunderstood. In that case, please attach (as .eml) a sample email that doesn't show correctly.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Oh… «How to»? I do not see a function to add a file.

I shall not paste in over 800 lines of content of an ELM file I used for tests?

Point is, this file came from am archive I surely remember it was parsed correctly, but now it is not longer. And, that file is from same manor of creation as those now which alerted me.
A fresh made mail is not correctly parsed in TB 115, ist is ugly parsed in Outlook of Office 2016 (shall alert me, too), it fails in some web mailers of surely same type, but is shown fine in an other web mailer - and in TB 102.

If there is a chance to send such old EML I’ll do.

Markus Erich

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

There's an "Attach new file" button up on this page (under Attachments).

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: message-1-68715.eml

Here you are :-)

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: image.png

The message looks pretty normal to me. It has italic and things. I don't know what should look differently.

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Bild0.png

We do use different font sizes.

Attached Image is from actual projects, but it follows same structure. See footerm an even size of links in middle is a little smaller.

Markus Erich

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

Indeed we do work there with font sizes…

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #8)

Created attachment 9355476 [details]
Bild0.png

We do use different font sizes.

Attached Image is from actual projects, but it follows same structure. See footer, and even size of links in middle is a little smaller.

Markus Erich

Comment 10

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Please use the same email when screenshotting. I can't compare differences if it's a different email ;)

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

Simply follow font sieze, look out to the footer. And 1st line. I’ts just an other text and image, but essentially same structure.

It tends too strange. A table command in HTML works, masked as quoted printable.
<TABLE CELLPADDING=3D"0" CELLSPACING=3D"0">

But a font setting fails. And quite strange.
<SPAN STYLE=3D"font-size:10; font-style:italic; font-family:Arial,Helvetica=
;sansserif; color:#000000">
(line break so copied from mail’s code by Ctrl+U)

😟 Oh my God.
I tried to change order, assuming 1st tag may be crippled.
<SPAN STYLE=3D"italicfont-size:10; font-family:Arial,Helvetica;sansserif; color:#000000">
Does not help, but even does not change anything due display. Then I tried…
<SPAN STYLE=3D"font-size:10pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Arial,Helvetica;sansserif; color:#000000">
…giving unit Point to font size. And it worked!

I’m not qualified to, but an usual standard taking pt, Point, as unit got be sabotaged ;-). May be a good idea to repair it back to old school.

Markus Erich