248145 - Preferred send message format being ignored

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Albert Freeman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

The 'Prefers to receive message formatted as' option is being ignored when
selecting 'Write' from the address contextual menu.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the address book from the address book icon on the main icon bar.
2. Select an address.
3. Right-click and select 'Write'
Actual Results:  
Either way, I get a message composition window with controls for HTML composition

Expected Results:  
If I selected 'Plain Text' as the preferred format, I should get a plain text
composition window. If I selected 'HTML', I should get an HTML composition window.

Ideally, in the Preferences, there should be an option to set whether or not the
default for unspecified new messages should be Plain Text or HTML. This would be
overridden by the individual choice in the address book.

Comment 1

[Albert Freeman]

Never mind. Just discovered that the default format option is part of the
account options rather than part of the global options (didn't expect that).