227755 - "When displaying HTML messages marked as junk, sanitize the HTML" option in Junk Mail controls is global, should be per account

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Robert Marshall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031202 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205)

When going into Junk Mail Controls the option for sanitizing HTML seems to be
global to all email accounts, and cannot be set individually when you have
multiple accounts specified

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open Tools|Junk Mail Controls, use default account
2. In Handling section checkmark the "When displaying HTML messages..." parameter
3. Click OK button
4. Re-open Tools|Junk Mail Controls
5. Choose one of your additional user accounts
6. Uncheckmark "When displaying HTML messages..." parameter
7. Click OK button
8. Re-open Tools/Junk Mail controls
9. Choose the account/user that you set in Steps 1&2
Actual Results:  
The default account's "When displaying HTML messages..." checkbox will now be
uncheckmarked. Additionally, if you have more than two accounts set up, you will
find that ALL accounts are set to the same parameter.

Expected Results:  
The default account whould have stayed checkmarked, while the second account
modified should have been uncheckmarked. Basically, this setting is global,
however, should have not have been.

This was the milestone release that one of the developers built into an
installer build, however, I don't have the URL at hand where I downloaded it
from. Sorry.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I agree the UI of the setting is confusing, but I disagree that this setting 
should be per-account; instead, the option should be presented to make it 
obvious that it's global.  See bug 257990.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Actually, the "Sanitize the HTML" preference no longer has UI at all.