on 2014-07-28 13:43 John wrote
I only accept email as plain text. Thunderbird converts HTML emails into plain
text. Some emails end up as nothing as links that are impossible to follow, but
that's Ok, because they're mostly throw away junk.
from your mention of "converting" it sounds like you have the following
settings:
View > Message Body As > Original HTML
plus the following in the config editor:
mailnews.display.html_as = 1 (convert to text)
this does indeed convert HTML to text, but i greatly prefer:
View > Message Body As > Plain Text
which shows the actual plain-text version; this will still have tons of coded
tracking links on most commercial email, but is a bit cleaner on these and is
much better on emails that have a well-formed plain-text version; i also
recommend the following extension to make it easier to occasionally view HTML
versions without changing the default view for other messages:
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/allow-html-temp/>
But I haven't been able to winkle out what I have to do to make RECEIVED HTML
messages that Thunderbird converted to plain text wrap to the window. I get
these one line per paragraph messages that have to be scrolled horizontally to
read.
i can't reproduce this specific behavior; either i'm not understanding your
description or you have set things up differently from me (i tried several
config settings)
for me, all messages wrap correctly for reading, but when i compose replies to
messages that don't use format=flowed, and that have unwrapped paragraphs, i do
see the quoted part running off the right side of the compose window; perhaps
this is the problem you're seeing? if so, i use the Rewrap command (command-r
on Mac) when i see that problem, and it rewraps cleanly; there's an extension
that will do this automatically on all replies, but i haven't tried it; you
could also try the following setting:
mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width = true
but i don't personally like the result — quoted text displays better while
composing replies, but messages are sent out with wrapped lines not properly quoted
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