271710 - html compose although disabled in options

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Torsten Curdt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041116 Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu) (Ubuntu package 1.0-2ubuntu3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041116 Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu) (Ubuntu package 1.0-2ubuntu3)

When I hit reply on some messages I do get the html compose view although it has
been turned off in account settings > compose & addressing. This even happens
for some mails that are plain text. I assume this is related to the multiple
identities associated with this account. In fact "html compose" is one of the
many setting that should move from per account to per identity settings IMO.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
Just hit reply on a message.

On a particular message it can be reproduced every time I hit reply
but it's not failing on all messages.
Actual Results:  
The compose window opens in html compose mode

Expected Results:  
Open the window in plain text mode.

If you manually switch to plain text mode sometimes the font is not adjusted and
kept as variable with ...although it should be fixed with instead.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Torsten Curdt: TB 1.0 has support for setting these preferences individually on 
each identity (Server Settings | <server> | Manage Identities).  This should 
make it easy to solve your particular problem.

> If you manually switch to plain text mode sometimes the font is not adjusted
> and kept as variable wi[d]th

That's true; the "manual switch" simply turns off the formatting toolbar and 
forces the mail to be *sent* as text/plain.  See bug 216132, bug 140800.