271651 - format=flowed not handled correctly when editing drafts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155622

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.9/Thunderbird%20Setup%200.9.exe

If I start writing an email, and save it into the drafts, it will be saved with
format=flowed in content-type.  When I open that draft for editing again,
message compose window will not reassemble paragraphs correctly, they will be as
if I typed new line at end of each line.

On an example, say I was editing email, and saved it.  Saved mail source will
look something like this (I replaced last space in line with _):

asdf asdf asdf asdf_
qwer qwer qwer qwer_
zxcv zxcv zxcv zxcv_

After reopening this draft for editing, and adding some text to second line and
saving it again, content-type will still claim the format is flowed, but the
source will look like this:

asdf asdf asdf asdf
qwer qwer uiop uiop_
qwer qwer
zxcv zxcv zxcv zxcv

You can see something is wrong even when editing, since compose window treats
each line as it was separate paragraph (instead of treating all lines as one
paragraph).  When you view this new copy of draft, it looks rather odd:

asdf asdf asdf asdf
qwer qwer uiop uiop qwer qwer
zxcv zxcv zxcv zxcv

(which, of course, is correct representation of the source)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start writing mail, make couple of paragraphs long enough not to fit onto
single line
2. save as draft
3. reopen draft for editing, and try adding text to existing paragraphs, try
adding one new paragraph
4. save as draft (or send)
5. view this new draft (or sent mail) - formatting will be broken

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155622 ***