225267 - Messages saved in Draft or Templates folder should not be wrapped.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155622

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Andy Ozment]

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Build Identifier:  0.4a (20031026)

I type a message and save it, as either a Draft or Template. (Both behave the
same way.) For the purposes of this example, we'll say I save it as a Template.

When I'm ready to send a message based on this Template, I go to the Template's
folder and double click on the message.

The message now appears in a compose window. Before I send it, I'd like to make
a few minor changes, perhaps some personalizations.

I add text to an existing, multi-line paragraph. That paragraph has had line
breaks inserted in it when it was saved as a Template. As a result, the text
does not shift so that the line breaks are in the appropriate place.

Unless I delete those line breaks (or returns, or EOL, or whatever they are
called), the paragraphs will have lines of dramatically uneven length. It will
look like a **** forward.

I believe that better behaviour would be to save the message as a Draft or
Template _without_ inserting line breaks. Then, when the message was re-edited,
the text would flow and wrap appropriately.

Now I'll try to create an example of the
problem
in this paragraph. When the first sentence
was originally written, it did not include
the word "Now." It was saved to a Template.
Then, it was double-clicked so that the
Compose window re-appeared. At that point,
the word "Now" was inserted into the first
sentence. When it was initially saved, a
line break had been inserted after the word
"problem." The insertion of "now" causes a
new line break to be inserted after the word
"the", but the original line break after
"problem" remains. The result is that "problem"
is pushed onto a new line, but that new line
ends immediately after the word "problem."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a message that includes a multi-line paragraph.
2. Save the message as a Template
3. Close the message.
4. Go to the Templates folder.
5. Double-click on the message so that it pops back up in a Compose window.
6. Add text inside the multi-line paragraph.
7. Send the message.
8. Go to the Sent folder and view the message.

Actual Results:  
The message you view in the Sent folder contains the line breaks inserted at the
time of sending. In combination with the line break previously inserted, your
message may have lines of awkward/unnatural lengths.

Expected Results:  
Do not insert line breaks when saving as a Draft or Template.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

this is a core mailnews feature

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

It's also a dupe, altho the earlier bug doesn't specifically mention templates.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155622 ***