213239 - Certain email text [e.g. W:\sales\marketing] if authored in Mozilla 1.4 and sent to Moz. 1.3.1 will be underlined

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Printing, defect)

Description

[Gary Davidson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I have discovered that if you have certain text in an email generated with the
email client in Mozilla 1.4 and if this email is received by someone that has
Mozilla 1.3.1, this text will be erroneously underlined.

Example of text content that will exhibit problem.

3) Select "Save location" to be d:\MKTN\IMPORT and click "Save"
   [ W:\SALES\MKTN\IMPORT ]

The result will be :
This text will be underlined : "Save location" to be d:\MKTN\IMPORT and click "
This text will also be underlined : W:\SALES\MKTN\IMPORT

When this same email is received and printed on a PC that is running Mozilla
1.4, nothing appears underlined as should be the case.

This problem could be related to the printing problem reported in Mozilla 1.4 in
the bug report below :

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213179



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Generate an email in Mozilla 1.4 with text content as shown in "Details"
2.Send email to user who is running Mozilla 1.3.1.
3.User receiving email should print to see flaw that appears as underlined text

Actual Results:  
The user running Mozilla 1.3.1 will see text in email unnecessarily underlined
when printed.

Expected Results:  
The text should not have been underlined.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

If the problem is receiving mail with an old version, then nothing can be done
to fix it except upgrading your Mozilla 1.3.1 to 1.4
Invalid.

Comment 2

[Gary Davidson]

See bug report #213179.  The #213179 bug report presents a printing bug
introduced by Mozilla 1.4.  The bug reported in this present report should not
be classified as Resolved Invalid because there is a good possibility that
Mozilla 1.4 is corrupting text content during created email and is also
corrupting font sizes when printing text based email.