Closed Bug 449710 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

HTML email not sent and received as HTML

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mike, Unassigned)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080418 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: 2008072418

In Thunderbird, compose a message an apply various formatting to the message (e.g., bold, italic, center, right align, font color). Insert an image, a link, and a table. 

Send the message as HTML. When you check receive the mail in Thunderbird, it's plain text. It also shows some of font styling markup for bold, italic, and underline (e.g., *bold*, /italic, /_underline).

When you view the message in the sent items folder, you can see the HTML formatting is not preserved. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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hmm, with 2008072500 (which admittedly isn't 3.0a2RC) I don't see a problem at either end.

what do you see with "view source".
And does it also not look correct when saved as a draft?
(In reply to comment #1)
> hmm, with 2008072500 (which admittedly isn't 3.0a2RC) I don't see a problem at
> either end.
> 
> what do you see with "view source".
> And does it also not look correct when saved as a draft?
> 

The message does not display correctly when saved as a draft. The message
source does contain the HTML, but it doesn't render correctly. The attachment
shows how the HTML formatted displays when it's received in Thunderbird. Here's
the messages source for the mail:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<h1>H1</h1>
<a href="http://badgerfiles.com">Link 1</a><b><br>

<br>
Bold<br>
<br>
</b><i>Italic<br>
<br>
<u>Underline<br>
<br>
</u></i>
<div align="center"><font color="#ff0000">Red Centered</font><br>
<div align="right">Align Right<br>

<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="100%">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top">Row 1 Column 1<br>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">Row 1 column2<br>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top">Row 2 column 2<br>
      </td>
      <td valign="top">Row 2 Column 2<br>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>

</table>
<br>
</body>
</html>


Attached file Copy of HTML
Copy of an HTML email that does not properly display using Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418).
email looks looks perfect in windows version 3.0a2 (2008072418) so compose isn't at fault.

- I can't comment on linux -

Component: Message Compose Window → General
QA Contact: message-compose → general
To Mike Badger(bug opener):

What is your choice of option in View/"Message Body As"?

Mail source says mail is proper HTML mail. So bug summary by you is apparently incorrect. And, if you chose View/"Message Body As"/"Plain Text", your "it doesn't render correctly" is incorrect too.
If your choice is "Plain Text", close as INVALID, please.
This one's tester error. This bug is invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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