387155 - Scrambled Formatting when conversion to plain text occurs (involving space padded text)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Ken]

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: 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

This is how it started.  Thunderbird version 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

I'm not saying you're old, just really knowledgable...                    
                                                                           
                                                                           
                             A TEST FOR OLD KIDS                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
 I was picky who I sent this to.  It had to be those who might actually    
 remember.                                                                 
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
 This is a test for us, old kids! The answers are printed below, but don't 
 you cheat.                                                                
                                                                           
                                                                           
 01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the 
 grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone 
 would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind. What did he leave    
 behind?________________.                                                  
                                                                           
 02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched 
 them on T! He _______________ Show.                                       
                                                                           
 03. "Get your kicks, ___________________."                                
                                                                           
 04. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been          
 changed___________________."                                              
                                                                           
 05.   "In the! Jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________."              
                                                                           
 06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we "danced" under 
 a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the      
 "_____________."                                                          
                                                                           
 07.   "N_E_S_T_L_E_S", Nestle's makes the very best.......                
 _______________."                                                         
                                                                           
 08.   Satchmo was America's "Ambassador of Goodwill." Our parents shared  
 this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.   
                                                                           
 09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?  _______________.          
                                                                           
 10. Red Skelton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red     
 always ended his television show by saying, "Good Night, and "________    
 ________".                                                                
                                                                           
 11. Some Americ! ans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning      
 their______________.                                                      
                                                                           
 12 The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the   
 front was called the VW . What other names did it go by? ____________ &   
 _______________.                                                          
                                                                           
 13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, "the day the music     
 died"This was a tribute to  ___________________.                          
                                                                           
 14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians   
 did it. It was called ___________________.                                
                                                                           
 15. One of the big fa ds of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic    
 ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the                  
 ________________. !                                                       
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
 ANSWERS:                                                                  
                                                                           
 01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.                          
 02. The Ed Sullivan Show                                                  
 03. On Route 66                                                           
 04. To protect the innocent.                                              
 05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight                                               
 06. The limbo                                                             
 07. Chocolate                                                             
 08. Louis Armstrong                                                       
 09. The Timex watch                                                       
 10. Freddy, The Freeloader,and "Good Night,and may God Bless."            
 11. Draft cards (Bras were also  burned.)                                 
 12. Beetle or Bug                                                         
 13. Buddy!  Holly                                                         
 14. Sputnik                                                               
 15. Hoola-hoop                                                            
                                                                           
 Send this to your "old" friends. It will keep them busy and let them      
 forget their aches and pains for a few minutes.               





This is how it ended up.  WHY???????

 I'm not saying you're old, just really knowledgable...                                                                                                                                                                                                       A TEST FOR OLD KIDS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   I was picky who I sent this to.  It had to be those who might actually     remember.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            This is a test for us, old kids! The answers are printed below, but don't  you cheat.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the  grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone  would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind. What did he leave     behind?________________.                                                                                                                              02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched  them on T! He _______________ Show.                                                                                                                   03. "Get your kicks, ___________________."                                                                                                            04. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been           changed___________________."                                                                                                                          05.   "In the! Jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________."                                                                                          06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we "danced" under  a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the       "_____________."                                                                                                                                      07.   "N_E_S_T_L_E_S", Nestle's makes the very best.......                 _______________."                                                                                                                                     08.   Satchmo was America's "Ambassador of Goodwill." Our parents shared   this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.                                                                               09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?  _______________.                                                                                      10. Red Skelton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red      always ended his television show by saying, "Good Night, and "________     ________".                                                                                                                                            11. Some Americ! ans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning       their______________.                                                                                                                                  12 The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the    front was called the VW . What other names did it go by? ____________ &    _______________.                                                                                                                                      13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, "the day the music      died"This was a tribute to  ___________________.                                                                                                      14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians    did it. It was called ___________________.                                                                                                            15. One of the big fa ds of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic     ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the                   ________________. !                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ANSWERS:                                                                                                                                              01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.                           02. The Ed Sullivan Show                                                   03. On Route 66                                                            04. To protect the innocent.                                               05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight                                                06. The limbo                                                              07. Chocolate                                                              08. Louis Armstrong                                                        09. The Timex watch                                                        10. Freddy, The Freeloader,and "Good Night,and may God Bless."             11. Draft cards (Bras were also  burned.)                                  12. Beetle or Bug                                                          13. Buddy!  Holly                                                          14. Sputnik                                                                15. Hoola-hoop                                                                                                                                        Send this to your "old" friends. It will keep them busy and let them       forget their aches and pains for a few minutes.                                                                                                               

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click FORWARD
2.SEND
3.VIEW in SENT Folder
Actual Results:  
Scrambled

Expected Results:  
Expected it to look like the original.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This is reproducible (tried 2.0). But only when composing in html mode and sending as plain text (or sending as html+plain and viewing the plain part).

What seems to happen is that all the lines get spaced padded to full line length, which mess up with format flowed. I think.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This needs somebody to copy/morph/prepare the testcase from comment 0 into a real .eml attachment for testing purposes.