On 7/28/2014 7:20 PM, steve harley wrote:
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
I have it set as View > Message Body > Plain Text. Have had it that way
for years.
Most received messages wrap long lines to the window, but occasionally
one doesn't. I don't know why.
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