268397 - Compose settings ignored for non-default identities.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246744

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Stuart Grimshaw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041008 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041108)

I have my various email accounts set up to be collected via fetchmail and I
access them via imap once they have been collected.

I have set up identities on the imap account to match each one of my possible
email addresses, and I have also set up Thunderbird to always reply in plain text.

This works fine if the reply is going to the default email address on the
account, but the 2nd & 3rd addresses ignore this setting and send it as an html
email.

I've seen the bug regarding individual settings for identities, but this is
different because it ignores the setting of the default id.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create multiple ID's on an account.
2. Set account to always reply plain text.
3. Reply to HTML email sent to non-default email address.

Actual Results:  
The software ignores the settings for the account.

Expected Results:  
It should have sent the email plain text.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I've seen the bug regarding individual settings for identities, but this is
> different because it ignores the setting of the default id.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  The alternate identities have two problems 
-- first, they don't uniformly inherit the settings from the primary identity 
when they are created (see bug 246744 comment 6); and second, there is no UI to 
allow most identity- specific settings to be individually changed (bug 262300).

Comment 2

[Stuart Grimshaw]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246744 ***