tags 327011 + wontfix
thanks
ok, will keep it open and tag it wontfix so it gets documented for the
future.
Thanks for confirming this default behaviour. Since I rarely reset my
production thunderbird its sometimes hard to remember the exact
default behaviour.
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:01:52PM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:49:07PM +0200, Alexander Sack - Debian Bugmail
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:57:32AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
> > > Package: mozilla-thunderbird
> > > Version: 1.0.6-3
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > I notice that the default option in Thunderbird for each new account
> > > is to turn "Compose messages in HTML format" on. Would it be possible
> > > to change this setting to reflect normal email practice among Linux
> > > users and protect unwary new users from the consequences of sending
> > > html email where it's unwelcome?
> > >
> > > It seems that the setting is in
> > > /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/defaults/pref/mailnews.js
> > > (unless another file overrides it).
> > >
> > > pref("mail.identity.default.compose_html", true);
> > >
> >
> > The question is whether this really means that messages are send as
> > html by default. If you compose as html and send plain text you get
> > the behaviour that bold text is automatically surrounded by *, italic
> > by / and underline by _. Further thunderbird converts unnumbered and
> > numbered lists IIRC. So in this case composing as html is indeed a
> > good option that anybody wants, right?
> >
> > You see that thunderbird really sends mail as html too by default?
> > Maybe this is another setting?
>
> Experiment shows that the behaviour is as you describe. Smiley icons
> are also converted to text equivalents. Even the option in the compose
> window to send as HTML is ignored unless the recipient is specified in
> preferences as willing to receive HTML.
>
> It's a very nice feature, but it isn't documented in the official FAQ
> or Tips, and didn't seem to be mentioned in bugzilla or mozillazine
> when I checked Google before reporting. In these circumstances, I
> don't think it's unreasonable for a user looking at account settings
> to assume that a message composed with HTML will be sent as HTML, and
> thus never know about the feature. However, that's an upstream
> documentation/usability issue, and the fault I thought I'd found
> doesn't exist.
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
- Alexander
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