58489 - Should automatically send HTML within my own domain

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Tested on the Mac with Gecko/20001027 and an IMAP account:

I have the "Send Format" pref set to "Ask me what to do" but unlike Nav4, when I
send a HTML mail to someone in my own domain (including myself!), Moz shows the
dialog to ask me what format I want to use instead of automatically sending it
in HTML.  The dialog should only be shown if the recipient list contains an
address outside my own domain.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

I have alot of people in my domain that only read mail using pine, so it should
default to HTML mail.
But it could default to HTML when sending to yourself..

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Henrik: You presumably have a "not" missing in that sentence. (although... Pine 
now understands HTML mail, so...)

"Me too". At my university, there is a huge number of people using a massive
variety of mail clients, and I see no reason for one client to assume that all
the others can understand HTML mail.

WONTFIX?

Comment 3

[Jacob Steenhagen]

A pref, perhaps?  If a corporation standardizes on Moz, it would be nice to
support this.  Maybe some sort of heirchial rememberance... @foo.com - HTML =
[e-mail] - Plain Text.  That the more specific and run w/it. (Unspecified
could still be "ask me").
Platform and OS to all - Severity to enhancement - myself to CC

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

triaging.

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

In 4.x, we use to be able to exclude domains from the HTML Intelligent Send
feature. We need to implement that...

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

changing milestone to unknown.  It will get changed back when we figure out what
milestone to put this bug in.

Comment 7

[Sheela Ravindran]

Changed qa contact from esther to fenella.  cc-ing myself.  Fenella I thought
this is your area(intelligent send)if not please reassign.

Comment 8

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Pierre, the fact that 4.x always sends HTML to "your own" domain is that you are
@netscape.com and 4.x ships with netscape.com in the html domains list by
default. This functionality is tracked by bug 37967 (if that bug isn't a dup of
another one) and is ready to check in, according to othe latest Mailnews status
report.

The assumption that everyone in the organisation uses the same Mailnews client,
on which this feature request presumably bases, is just wrong, sorry. Marking
WONTFIX.

Comment 9

[fenella]

Change to Sheelar

Comment 10

[Sheela Ravindran]

reassign to esther since intelligent send is her area now.  

Comment 11

[fenella]

Mark it verified/dup.