40572 - Optionally convert incoming HTML messages into plain text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 30888

(MailNews Core :: MIME, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Alex]

SUMMARY
Enhancement: Feature to convert incoming HTML-formatted email into plain text.

CURRENTLY
Unless I missed it, when someone sends an HTML-formatted email, the recipient of
that email has no option other than to view it as formatted in HTML, whether the
recipient likes HTML-formatted email or not.

SUGGEST FEATURE
There should be a feature for people who do not like HTML-formatted emails that
can convert it to regular plain text in their incoming emails.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

RFE Bug 18427, "Non-presentational HTML mail", would provide a mechanism
for implementing this... apply a stylesheet that respects very little
HTML formatting and renders that in ascii (empty <P> as "\n\n", for example).

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

reassigning to ducarroz

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

Leaving as future.  This won't be in mozilla0.9 unless someone else takes the bug.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Might be a dup of bug 30888, "Want 'View as plaintext' (version/conversion)".

Comment 6

[Alex]

Indeed it is, and there's much more activity and even a potential fix in the
other one too! Whoohoo!

Marking dup of 30888

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30888 ***

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

v

wow, even more votes...