376566 - HTML e-mail display configuration affects text e-mails

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Stephen Rasku]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.10 (20070221)

I have noticed this on both Linux and Windows so I am reporting it as affecting all platforms.

For Windows, in Tools | Options | Display | Formatting | HTML Messages:

If you change the background color for this section it will affect the background colour for all displayed e-mails even if it is a text e-mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select "Tools".
2. Select "Options".
3. Goto "Display" preferences.
4. Select "Formatting" tab.
5. Change "Background Color" under "HTML Messages" to another color.
6. Press OK.

Actual Results:  
Background colour changes for all e-mail messages including text e-mails.

Expected Results:  
Background colour for HTML messages should change.  Text e-mail messages should remain the same.  I want to use this (missing) feature to tell whether I am looking at a text e-mail or an HTML e-mail.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

In 2.0 there is no "HTML Messages" options...
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2.0.0.0-candidates/>

Comment 2

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Still a bug?

Comment 3

[Stephen Rasku]

In Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 the background colour only affects the text e-mails.  HTML e-mail is not affected.  This works for me.