271516 - sent messages re-edited as plain text while account is set to HTML

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78794

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until August 27)]

Bug on thunderbird 0.9 and mozilla suite 1.8a4

1 have a mail account set to send text as html+plain text
2 open a compose window and type some text (you have a composer window with the
html toolbar)
3 send your message
4 go to the "Sent" folder, select your message and choose "edit as new"

expected result : message should be edited in HTML mode according to the account
preferences
actual result : message edited as plain text, you can't add color, tables...

This is very annoying in our business, we often have to reuse messages sent to
clients and users don't understand why sometimes the toolbar is there (the
original message contained html) and sometimes not (the message was sent as
plain text). Sending as HTML only is not an option for us for compatibility
reasons. It seems that thunderbird analyses the messages before choosing the
editing mode, it should also check what the default setting is for the concerned
account.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See also bug 130508

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78794 ***