29624 - Plain text sent as html when formatting prefs says to check mail for html and ask.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Bratell]

I have the formatting pref for mails set to send send mails as plain text unless 
there is special formatting in it, when it should ask how to do but it doesn't.

Composing a mail with the html compose and clicking "send" the mail is sent as 
text/html even though I just wrote some words without any formatting at all. It 
doesn't ask anything, just sends it.

I don't think this has ever worked for me. Is it work in progress? I couldn't 
find any bug on it, but would expect it to work in beta1.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

note: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28682 is for mac and that the 
options for Ask Me does not work.

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

We are still not able to detect if an HTML message really contains formating or 
embeded object. I think I have already an open bug for this missing feature!

Comment 3

[leger]

Putting on PDT+ for asking the user.  But a minus for checking content.  Please 
provide ETA date for fix in Status Whiteboard.

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

accepting, M14

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

question for Bratell:
1) Are you sendind the HTML message to several recipients? if yes how many?
2) Are you sure that all the recipient doesn't have an card into either the 
personnal addressbook or the collected addressbook, if they have, check the send 
as plain text setting.

Comment 6

[Daniel Bratell]

I sent a mail to myself only and I can't find anyone at all in the addressbook. 
Is there a special UI for the "collected" address book?

Comment 7

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Looks like you get the problem with the collected addressbook not showing up (I think we already have a bug for 
that). Collected AB should show up in the AB window just under the Personal AB in the left side of the window. As in 
the past (before last week I think), collected addresses where set to accept HTML by default. Therefore if you have 
sent in the past a message to yourself, you have an entry for your email address in the collected AB with the wrong 
setting that why you don't get the Ask Dialog.

Try to delete the collected AB data file (<user profile folder>\ history.mab), quit the application and then try again 
to send a message to yourself, should work this time.

Comment 8

[Daniel Bratell]

You were right. Now I'm asked which is good but the content isn't checked before 
asking which is bad. Since that's covered in bug 28420 I'll mark this bug 
invalid, and you have another PDT+ bug "fixed". :-)

Comment 9

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Thanks.

We need a release note for this issue.

Comment 10

[lchiang]

I'll mark verified as invalid.  We'll relnote when I do a query on all mail/news 
relnote keywords.

Comment 11

[laurel]

removing relnote keyword so it won't accidentally be picked up in notes.