337931 - Conversion of quoted text to outgoing plain text drops line spacing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 314213

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Haines]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060405 SeaMonkey/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060405 SeaMonkey/1.0.1

In the mail composition window, quoted text is displayed indented with a blue line down the left side, with automatic line breaks above and below it.  But when this message is sent out as plain text, those line breaks are dropped so the quoted text and unquoted text are jammed together unless you explicitly add extra line breaks above and below each quoted section beforehand.

This behavior was new to Seamonkey -- I didn't experience it in Mozilla 1.7.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reply to a message
2. Type some new text in between quoted sections
3. Send message as plain text
Actual Results:  
Line breaks around quoted text seen in mail composition window disappear in the conversion to plain text.

Expected Results:  
Line breaks around quoted text in mail composition window are carried over into plain text version.

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

SeaMonkey v1.0.x is not supported anymore.

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 2

[Jeremy Haines]

Yes, this still happens with v1.1.9.  I've relabeled this as a v1.1 bug.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v2.0a1pre ?

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Actually, this is (very rightfully) a tb3 blocker already.

Comment 5

[Ernesto Baschny]

The behaviour only happens if the current block style is "Normal text". If you change your reply line to "Paragraph", it works like a charm after the conversion to plain-text.

So the simpliest solution in my eyes would be a configuration option where I can define "Paragraph" to be the default block style for new text instead of "Normal text".

Cheers,
Ernesto

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

There already is one, problem is it's not working for some reason - bug 330891.