Closed Bug 407178 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

HTML messages on IMAP server out/sent box created in Eudora 6.x display as raw text.

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: clifford.bass, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2) Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.9 (20071031) I am testing out switching from using Eudora 6.x to Thunderbird or Penolope. All my messages are stored on an IMAP server. Most of the messages that I sent from Eudora display in the mail view pane/window of Thunderbird and Penolope as raw HTML. I found a similar bug report, number 258489. But this does not apply as I am not importing from Eudora, just connecting to the IMAP server. I do use a signature most of the time. It seems to be related to the presence of either a signature or formatted text. And it seems to be related to the missing "Content-Type:" tag. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up Eudora to use an IMAP server. 2. Create a signature (mine is text only). 3. Create and send a message using the signature and/or using formatted text. 4. Set up Thunderbird or Penelope to access the IMAP server. 5. View the sent message from the sent/out box. Actual Results: Message that has the line "Formatted text." with "Formatted" red and italic displays as: <html> <body> <font color="#FF0000"><i>Formatted</i></font> text.<br> </body> </html> Expected Results: Should see the message as composed. Thanks!
Bug 258489 indeed explains the problem. Not sure it's worth fixing for normal display since it's clearly buggy behavior of eudora.
Hi Magnus, True, it is related to a flaw in Eudora. But that does not negate the issue. Apparently it was an unresolved issue for at least one other person here. Maybe what is needed is a way to replicate whatever the Eudora import process does to deal with the problem, only to be able to tell it to do it on an existing mail folder. Meanwhile, I am seeing if I can come up with a work-around. I asked our e-mail server administrator for a copy of my sent box file so I could try adding a "Content-Type: text/html..." line to the affected messages. Once he places it back out on the IMAP server I should be able to find out. Thanks, Clifford Bass
Hello, Replacing the following: Mime-Version: 1.0 <html> With the following: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> in each of the mail box files functioned as a work-around for me. But it was only possible because I could get copies of the files from the IMAP server. Others may not be able to do so. Sincerely, Clifford Bass
This is really a Eudora 6 bug, and not a Thunderbird one....
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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