257537 - Edit as new on unsent message always uses plain text editor

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[greg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040818 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040818 Firefox/0.9.1+

If composing a message to one or more users for which the preferred recipient
format is "Unknown", and no HTML codes are placed in your message, when you
select "Send Later" and then go to "Edit as New", it will only use the plain
text editor, even though your options are set to use the HTML editor.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. With your Composition settings set to "Compose in HTML", compose a message to
a user who "Prefers to receive messages formatted as: Unknown". Do not insert
any HTML code.  
2. File -> Send Later.
3. Go to Unsent Messages -> Edit as New. Message will open in a plain text
editor, and there appears to be no way to switch to HTML once this happens.



Expected Results:  
For "Unknown" users, if you have HTML set in your composition settings, you
should always be able to use the HTML editor. If Edit As New must open a plain
text editor, the user should be able to switch back to the HTML editor.

Inserting any HTML code (italics, font size) in the original message prevents
this from happening.

Comment 1

[greg]

Tested on version 0.6+ (20040831)

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Send Later performs the same transformation to the message that Send does; the 
assumption is that a message clicked with Send Later is complete.  So if the 
message would have been sent as plain if it had been sent immediately, that's 
how it ends up in the Unsent Messages folder.

And Edit As New does indeed maintain the (displayed) mode of the message -- if 
the message is (or is displayed as) plain, that's what the new message will be.

If you expect you want to edit the message again, you should be saving it as a 
Draft.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter; =>WFM