273636 - Compose window always uses monospace font for plain text messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 244471

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Simon Garner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 (20041206)

When Thunderbird is set to compose messages in plain text, the compose message 
window always uses the monospace/fixed width font (i.e. Courier New) set in 
Options > Fonts, even if the "Use the following font" setting is set 
to "Variable width font" in Options > Display.

Reading messages is not affected (plain text messages sent to you will 
correctly appear in the specified variable width font).

As a workaround, it is possible to change the Monospace font in Options > 
Fonts to a variable width font.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the account to not "Compose in HTML format"
2. Set plain text messages to display in variable width font (Options > 
Display)
3. Compose a message
Actual Results:  
The message body will be composed in monospace/fixed width font (default: 
Courier New, as set in Options > Fonts).

Expected Results:  
The message body should have been composed in a variable width font (as set in 
Options > Fonts).

Using encoding: Western (ISO-8859-1)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

"Use the following font" is a DISPLAY option, not a COMPOSE option.

If you wish to compose with variable width, it's best to compose as HTML; you 
can still send the mail out as plain text, altho I'll grant it's not trivial to 
make this happen automatically (you need to have your recipient listed in your 
address book as "prefers plain").  On a per-message basis, you can also force 
plain-text transmission using the  Options|Format  menu.


(In reply to comment #0)
> As a workaround, it is possible to change the Monospace font in Options > 
> Fonts to a variable width font.

This is not recommended; see bug 227186.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244471 ***

Comment 2

[Mark Hobson]

This is still a problem in Thunderbird 3.  Are there any plans to allow plain text emails to be composed in variable width fonts?  I don't want to send in HTML.