762475 - forwarded plain text loses format=flowed, becomes PREformat'ed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249093

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[MI]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120423130206

Steps to reproduce:

Forwarded a plain-text sent email. The selected email in the Sent mailbox had the "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed" header.


Actual results:

The new mail that opens in the Compose window is HTML, and the entire content which was plain-text format=flowed has been wrapped into a single PRE formatted HTML.

The style cannot be changed in the compose window, because changing it to "Body Text" or to "Paragraph" re-wraps everything into a single paragraph without any line break.


Expected results:

The plain text paragraphs should have been converted to HTML <P> paragraphs (or DIVs and BRs).

Or the forwarded email should remain plain/text, keeping it's original format=flowed property.

The only workaround seems to be:
- Select all the text and cut it (Ctrl-X)
- Change the style to Paragraph
- Paste it back "without formatting" (Shift-Ctrl-V)

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Known issue, unfortunately no progress in the original bug report.