927020 - "Edit Message as New" does not reuse message, but shows empty html editor instead

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Martin Trautmann]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130910160258

Steps to reproduce:

1) select a message
2) select menu Message > Edit Message as New (shortcut cmd-E)

or

2) select menu Message > Forward As > Inline




Actual results:

A new write window pops up, including the toolbar for HTML formatting. But default for message is plain text only.


Expected results:

Instead, the former message should be presented again, for modification of To, Subject or Body

The same malfunction can be observed when I use forwarding, inline

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Hi, do you still see this with Thunderbird 38 or 45?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #1)
> Hi, do you still see this with Thunderbird 38 or 45?

Martin?

Comment 3

[Martin Trautmann]

When I use "Edit as new Message" on a HTML message, this does open the message with HTML formatting options.

When I use it on a plain text message, it doesn't.

My setup is to use plain text as default. I feel that HTML is ok for HTML. 

So my suggestion is: bug is fixed.