239511 - Show mail in HTML-format for selected senders only

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Lupin III.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 (www.proxomitron.de)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 (www.proxomitron.de)

It would be nice, if the display-format of mails could be selected for specific
senders. All other mails should be displayed in the format selected under the
"View"-menu. And especially those in the Junk-folder should be displayed as
plain text, because these spams often contain images or other media content,
that should not be loaded without request.
Could this be solved with an option in the adress-book, where it is possible to
select the preferred message-sending-format?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[OstGote!]

related: bug 142149

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See also bug 233109.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[timeless]

i hate expiries

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

I recommend wontfix for this bug.

1) I think the days of hype about downgrading the display of HTML messages are over. I don't believe many users are ever switching View > Message Body as > ... to anything but "Original HTML".
2) We already have a highly complex system for determining the delivery format for outgoing messages, and would want to reduce that complexity rather than expand it. Implementing this RFE adds a lot of code and behaviour complexity for little benefit.
3) For the last 10 years since this was filed, this bug did not get any supportive comments, only 1 vote, and no dupes (couldn't find any).
4) Much of what this bug is trying to do is already implemented (e.g. protection against showing remote content, spam/junk/phishing filters etc.)

Wayne, or Magnus, can you make the call pls?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

beyond my experience. sorry to not be more helpful

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yeah I don't think this is worth doing.

Comment 9

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thanks.