328833 - Auto-Saving mail feature pops up window "Send in UTF-8?" while writing mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 328938

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Rotis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: TB version 1.5 (20051201)

I write and send mails ISO-coded. When I insert characters not in ISO-range and the auto-save feature of mails is on, a window pops up while writing the mail, asking me: "Send in UTF-8?". I can continue writing without answering the window and the window disappears, but the letters I wrote when the window popped up are a mess, because the window disturbed the input. Problem: This useful window should not pop up at auto-saving, it should pop up when clicking on "Send" or "Send later". Above (see URL) I've got a link to a text with German quotation marks. Simply copy it in a mail and wait until the auto-save wants to save the mail.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tomasz Ostrowski]

Additional info:

1. This shows up only when "Compose messages in HTML format" account setting is cleared.

2. This shows up on all hardware and OSes - I've seen it on Windows and on Linux (I cannot change "Hardware" and "OS" fields, so please change it).

3. When this shows up and a user selects "Cancel" (because he does not want to send a message - it is not done yet) then, when the message window is closed, then a dialog shows:
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Mail is currently in the process of sending a message.
Would you like to wait until the message has been sent before quitting or quit now?
[Quit] [Wait]
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It is confusing and a user will not know what to do - he didn't want to sent a message and it is now being sent! If he selects "Quit" or closes this dialog then his message will be lost (I'm proposing "dataloss" keyword for this bug).

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See bug 311821 comment 1 for a workaround.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Duping forward a hundred or so numbers, since for some reason the other one is catching more dupes.