352559 - Line breaks after whitespace are stripped from plain text messages when sent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261467

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Torben Jensen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5 (20060719)

While composing a plain text message, if I accidently enter a whitespace immediately before a line break, that line break will be stripped from the message once it is sent to a recipient.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write random text line, with the last character before a line break being a space. Example: "This is a test. \n"
2. Write more random text.
3. Send message to self and review.


Actual Results:  
The two original text lines were merged into one - the line break was gone.

Expected Results:  
None of my plain-text formatting should be deleted upon sending a message.

Although it is easy to circumvent this bug, it is easy to forget to do so despite its ubiquitous precence, which means it occurs often enough to be a major nuisance.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm assuming you've sent the wrap column to zero.  If so, this is a dupe:
bug 261467.  It's not that the line breaks are being stripped, it's the the end-of-line spaces are not; and when the message is sent as format=flowed (default), the end-of-line space means "flow to the next line."

Comment 2

[Torben Jensen]

Sorry I didn't find bug 261467 when I searched for possible dupes. You are correct, it is the same issue. This entry is hereby marked as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261467 ***