295899 - Off-switch for automatic conversion of addresses to links

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[ratatosk.se]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; sv-SE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317) (Windows, lang=en-US)

When sending or saving an e-mail, Thunderbird automatically converts (what it
deems to be) addresses to links. This behaviour is not always wanted and an
off-switch for it is desirable.

Situations where you absolutely don't want this behaviour includes when
presenting hypothetic examples of addresses, or when Thunderbird is mistaking
some other string for an address (compare bug 295887).

See the MozillaZine discussion at
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=271644


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write an e-mail in HTML format with what appears to be a real address (but
isn't).
2. Save or send.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird always turns what it deems to be addresses into links, regardless of
the intentions of the user.


Expected Results:  
Only when the user has requested this behaviour, through some configuration
switch, should Thunderbird try to interpret text strings in the body of sent or
saved messages as addresses, and convert those into links.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[walf]

I have this problem often (using Thunderbird 2.0.0.4). I find it incredibly annoying that I can't stop Thunderbird from automatically creating links from parts of the text.

I think it's *great* that the default behaviour is to automatically create links, it is a real time saver, but as a web developer I need to be able to write about URIs and URLs without them being modified every time. It would be good if you could turn it on/off per-message as you can with return receipts.

There's already a forum post on this issue at mozillaZine:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=271644

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

lucas, do you still see a problem if using version 3?

Comment 5

[walf]

of course. thunderbird still automatically encloses email addresses and urls in an <a>. i still haven't found a preference to turn this behaviour off at all, let alone per email.