386324 - Changing the From: pull down to an account with a signature leads to incorrect tabbing and font usage

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 118050

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Steve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.12 (20070509)

One of my email accounts uses a signature. If I select Write while in another account, and then change the From: box to the account with the signature, the signature appears correctly. However, when I tab from the Subject into the body of the email, the cursor goes to the bottom of the signature.

Also, when I move the cursor back to above the signature, then my chosen font is not used and I end up with what looks like Times New Roman.

I have both IMAP and POP mailboxes (the mailbox with the signature is POP); the fault is common to both, changing from either causes the problem.

The footer is a simple HTML file with some text and a table containing some text and a GIF.

On the Fonts tab, I have Western (ISO-8859-1) on both incoming and outgoing; neither tickbox is checked.

Under the Advanced button, I have the fields as: Western / Serif / 16 / Times New Roman / Verdana / Courier New / 13 / 96dpi / None / "Allow new messages..." is checked.

Neither the tabbing problem or the font problem occur if I am in the mailbox for the account with the footer when I click Write.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have at least two email accounts.
2.On one account, have a signature.
3.While in the non-signature account mailbox, click Write
4.Change the From: pull down to the signature account.
5.Tab > enter destination email address
6.Tab > enter Subject
7.Tab > goes to bottom of signature
Actual Results:  
Cursor at bottom of signature, not above.

Moving cursor to correct place changes font to Times New Roman.

Expected Results:  
Cursor goes to start of email body, above footer.

Chosen font is used.

Win XP Pro / Celeron 2.8 / 1Gb Ram / Dell Dimension 1100

Internet access through network connection to Netgear prosafe firewall and Billion ADSL router.

Comment 2

[Jerry Baker]

This happens with plain text messages as well.

Comment 3

[Nathan Tuggy (:tuggyne)]

Looks like a dup to me.