532966 - insert image into plain text email (Format = Auto-Detect) and send - looks like it will work, but doesn't

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Mike VandeVelde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.23

It's a silly thing to do I guess, but I composed a message (plain text I guess, format set to Auto-Detect) and inserted an image. The image showed up fine in the message compose window, success! Sent the message. Image simply no longer exists, fail! Only seems to work if I manually set the Format to one of the HTML options.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose new message, Format = Auto-Detect.
2. Insert image.
3. Send message.
Actual Results:  
Message sends fine, but image just simply goes into limbo.

Expected Results:  
I would have expected the image to simply not insert / menu item greyed out if there was no way it was going to send, or get a message when I hit send that this isn't going to work, and/or have the option to send as html or whatever it would take to work.

Obviously not an experienced bug submitter! I all around love Thunderbird. Just a small annoyance I noticed recently.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

In Thunderbird 3.0 to be released today we changed the default value for sending emails -> we now send Text+html by default. This solves your issue.

The 2.x branch is a maintainence and security only branch - this bug won't be fixed on 2.x.