284805 - plain text email wrapped differently in composition window and actual outgoing mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197130

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Alex Samuel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/thunderbird-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz (3-March-2005)

When composing a plain text message, multiple (>= 2) spaces at a line break are
absorbed and the next line begins in column zero.  In the mail that is actually
sent, extra spaces are inserted at the start of the next line, creating
undesirable indentation.

The outgoing message should be wrapped identically to what is shown in the
composition window.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure column wrapping at 72 characters
2. compose a new plain text message
3. enter this text in the message body: "This is a long1 long2 long3 long4 long5
long6 long7 long8 long9 long10 long11 line"
4. insert a few extra spaces between "long10" and "long11"
5. send the message

Actual Results:  
In the message composition window, "long11" appears at the start of the second
line.  In the mail that actualy goes out, "long11" is indented by several spaces.


Expected Results:  
The composition window and outgoing mail should be wrapped identically.
Probably the current behavior of the composition window is preferable.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Alex Samuel]

This bug still exists in 1.5 beta 1 (20050908).

Note that if you follow the steps to reproduce I posted previously, you must
view the outoing message in some other mail client to see the misformatting,
since Firefox reflows the text when displaying the sent message.

Comment 3

[Gunnar Wagenknecht]

I can configm this in Thunderbird 1.5 RC1

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258634 ***

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197130 ***