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Bug 268159
Opened 21 years ago
Updated 3 years ago
Certain replies appear to have no formatting but are not auto-converted to plain text (for "unknown" recipients)
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)
MailNews Core
Composition
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: mfedyk, Unassigned)
Details
Attachments
(1 file)
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6.60 KB,
message/rfc822
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
I have this option set: tools -> optoins -> composition -> send options -> send
the message as both plain text and html
And this is set also: tools -> account settings -> composition & addressing ->
compose message in html format
I have a message that I received that was plain text, and replied to it and
didn't use any formatting, except for the automatic colored vertical quoting lines.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reply to plain text message
2. Do not make use any formatting (bold, larger text, etc)
3. Send
Actual Results:
Outgoing message is in plain text & html.
Expected Results:
Outgoing message should only be in plain text.
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Reporter | |
Comment 1•21 years ago
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Forgot to put build ID: TB 0.9 (20041103)
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Comment 2•21 years ago
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What is the mail-type preference for the recipient in your address book?
Plain, HTML, or Unknown? For a recipient with an unknown preference, the actual
results are expected.
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Reporter | |
Comment 3•21 years ago
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I never set those in the address book, and I think this message created a new
card for this person -- so it must be unknown.
Just checked the card, and it is "unknown".
So, now I have to set each card on who wants plain text and who wants html?
Why does the blue vertical quote line have to count as formatting?
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Comment 4•21 years ago
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(In reply to comment #3)
> So, now I have to set each card on who wants plain text and who wants html?
Afraid so; it is kind of a pain. See bug 44494.
> Why does the blue vertical quote line have to count as formatting?
Y'know, I didn't read your bug report carefully enough -- that shouldn't count
as formatting. And when I just tried a simple test, it didn't -- my default
option is "Ask me what to do" and replying in HTML to my "unknown" recipient did
not generate the prompt.
However, when I replied to a text/plain (non-format=flowed) message with
multiple levels of quotes, like the original message in your attachment, I *did*
get the HTML Mail Question. That makes a combination of nested <blockquote>s
and <pre> text, which may be sufficiently complex to prevent automatic
conversion to plain text.
A f=f, multiple-level-quote reply is silently converted to plain, and so is a
non-f=f, single-level-quote reply,
However: a reply to an HTML mail, even a very simple one with no quotes, results
in the HTML Mail Question appearing. In my simple test case, the HTML which was
not auto-converted looked like this:
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
M Cowperthwaite wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid3F785663.4040208@toast.net" type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;">
<title></title>
Just some plain text.<br>
</blockquote>
Perfect!<br>
</body>
Maybe the <meta> or <title> tag that were (invalidly) included in the reply's
<blockquote> was sufficient to trigger the "this message is formatted" flag.
I see these results in TB 0.9 and Moz 1.8a5-1019, Win2K. Moving bug to
MailNews.
Severity: enhancement → minor
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Message Compose Window → Composition
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews
Summary: If replying to plain text message and mode is "send as plain text & HTML" and there is no formatting then only send as plain text → Certain replies appear to have no formatting but are not auto-converted to plain text (for "unknown" recipients)
Version: unspecified → Trunk
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Updated•21 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
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Updated•17 years ago
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Assignee: mscott → nobody
QA Contact: composition
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Assignee | |
Updated•17 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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Updated•3 years ago
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Severity: minor → S4
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