339089 - "Wrap text to fit window width" option doesn't work for html messages

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 english

The "Wrap text to fit window width" option in Thunderbird doesn't work.
It does not matter if it's checked or unchecked - Thunderbird will always do wordwrapping.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go Tools -> Options -> Display -> Formatting
2. Set "Wrap text to fit window width" to off by unchecking the box
3. Write a email or newsmessage with a very wide width (you will need to set the composing wordwrap to something large to do this - try 300) and post a message to a test group or email yourself the message
Actual Results:  
The message will display with wordwrapping

Expected Results:  
The message would display WITHOUT wordwrapping

Currently the only way to see the message without wordwrapping is to use View -> Message Source (CTRL + U)

Comment 1

[Cignangulo [:cigno]]

See this as well (Fx 1.5.0.2, WinXP). Confirming.

Is this also present for SeaMonkey / Mozilla? Might need to be re-routed.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The option does work, but only for text/plain messages that have been sent with format=flowed turned off.  f=f mail always reflows to window width -- that's the purpose for which it was designed; and it's turned on by default because, on balance, it's a better way to present mail.

See bug 168420 for more on format=flowed, there's a FAQ there.

Comment 3

[MarjaE]

As of Thunderbird 143, there is no such setting, and many messages require back-and-forth horozontal scrolling for each line; depending on your scrolling tools, this can break vertical scrolling.

Maube there should be an option for Resolved: Now Broken in Reverse.