57256 - Empty mail with attached webpage asks me for format

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

if you go the view the bugs reported today:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
click on "View Bugs Already Reported Today"
and after the page has finished loading select File -> Send Page

Now press the Send button and you're asked about the format you'd like to send 
it....

But the body of the mail doesn't contain any other text than the link of the 
webpage, so Mozilla shouldn't ask about the format...

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

accepting

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

This append only with some url.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This append only with some url.

J-F, did you mean "this *happened* only with some URL"?  I see it happen with 
any inserted link, even without an attachment.

I think this behavior is by design; the link counts as "formatting" and so will 
not be automatically downconverted to plain text if the recipient's preference 
for mail type is "unknown."  This is no different from simply marking a word 
bold and having the prompt displayed, even tho the conversion from bold text to 
*bold* text is simple and straightforward.

xref bug 182659.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070502 SeaMonkey/1.5a

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

With HTML composition on by default, if I send mail to an unknown recipient, the composition window uses HTML formatting, but the actual message sent is just plain text (I get no prompt).  If I instead make some of the text bold, I do get a prompt.

Not sure if that was a desired change, but it would seem to fix this bug.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I'd agree this is by design