263995 - HTML email settings non-intuitive

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Tomas Doran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Thunderbird/version 0.8 (20040913)

The setting to control if you send HTML email and how to quote replies is a
per-account setting.

The settings to control if you send html email to/from specific domains and how
to format HTML are global settings.

This is very confusing.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
IMO all of these settings should be grouped, probably at a global level, however
I'm sure that would offend come people - therefore in a perfect world, you would
be able to set a global default for all of them, and override in the per-account
settings..

Whatever happens, the dialogs need to be adjusted to be more clear as I have
spent 5 mins searching for the option I wanted on more than one occasion.

Comment 1

[Galen Swint]

I vote this be changed to "major" instead of "minor." I spend hours trying to
find the magic combinations of menus and settings to make HTML mail composition
and viewing work correctly. The options are simply in way to many places.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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