463575 - For messages with delivery format Plaintext AND HTML, provide tab with (editable) preview of plaintext part (what recipients will see in plain-text mode)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229117

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Will Pittenger]

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I normally send in plain-text and HTML, but how do plain text readers see my e-mail?  TB doesn't show me.  It would help if there was a tab just above the edit area or a toolbar button that would let me switch editors and see what the plain-text version would look like.  Once I am done with the HTML version, I might want to decouple the two versions and tweak the plain text version.

If the e-mail is being sent in HTML only, the plain text version would be a read-only prediction of how other clients would display the e-mail.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

You can view it by saving it as a draft (if it isn't auto-saved already) and View | Message Body As | Plain text

Comment 2

[Will Pittenger]

More steps and you can't override the plain text version

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 229117 to me - feel free to reopen if otherwise.

Certainly not easy to get right, but I also wonder why we don't allow separate editing of plaintext part vs. HTML part of the message.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #3)
> This looks like a duplicate of bug 229117 to me - feel free to reopen if
> otherwise.