211341 - Carriage-Returns Randomly Removed when Complex Plain Text Messages Sent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125928

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Darryn Lowe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

I like to send reasonably complex (i.e. lots of bullet and numbered points)
plain text emails.

The problem is that many (almost all) of my messages have occasional missing
carriage returns in, apparently, random locations.

For example, if a enter a message that uses Bullet Points, combined with
SHIFT+RETURNS to space them out, the message looks fine when in my composer window. 

Unfortuantly, when I go to send the message (and choose to do so in plain text),
I get bullet points running together on the same line as well as other blank
lines apparently ignored.

For example, if this text were a message, the blank line between this paragraph
and the preceding one would not be sent (they would appear to be the same
paragraph).

As said, although the message appears fine in my composer window, the message
appears corrupted in my 'sent-items' folder (as well as the recipients 'in-box').

I have tried using Netscape 7.1 as well as Mozilla 1.3 & 1.4 and the problem
exists there.

I used to use Netscape 4.x and there was *no* problem there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose message in plain text
2. Make the message complex; use bullet and numbered points and use SHIFT+RETURN
to insert blank space between successive points.  Use indent within bullet
points as well.  Use several levels of bullet points.
3. Send message.

Actual Results:  
The message, in both 'sent-items' folder and the recipients 'in-box' has random
carriage returns removed.

Expected Results:  
Not removed the carriage returns; the message should be sent the way it is
displayed in the composer window.

Comment 1

[Joe Infla]

Darryn, please review bug 125928 comment 4 and see if this is possibly the cause
of your bug.  I created a bulleted list with two extra spaces at the end of some
lines, and those were the only lines that dropped a carriage return.  If that
bug doesn't match your conditions, please provide a specific, cut-and-pasteable
example to test on.

Comment 2

[Joe Infla]

marking as duplicate pending any comments otherwise.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125928 ***