Richmond wrote:
Stanimir Stamenkov <s7a...@netscape.net> writes:
Since posting that article, I found that if an email is saved as
draft, it is saved in HTML format, even if it is a plain text
message. So I guess it is converted from HTML to text as it is sent.
If it gets saved in HTML you should be really composing it in
HTML. Have never seen such behavior of composing in plain text, and
then message being saved as HTML draft, using any version of
SeaMonkey. Does any of this change if you press and hold Shift while
pressing the "Compose" button? (this alternates the preferred
composition format)
OK, I tried shift compose and it is indeed wrapping as I type. What I
was doing before was pressing compose, and then selecting option -
format - plain text. I thought that amounted to the same thing. The
formatting toolbar disappears. But apparently it is not the same thing.
I initially assumed so too and was about to raise this as a bug. But a
quick search first turned up bug #21128
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21128> where someone noted
this behaviour of Options > Format > Plain Text back in 1999. It appears
it is intentional - the menu just sets the format to use for sending,
without changing the editor format.
It sounds like your default compose format (at least for the account in
question) is HTML. If that's what you usually want, you can use
Shift+Compose on occasions when you want to compose in plain text.
Alternatively, if you usually want to compose in plain text, you can go
to Edit > Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings > (Select account in the
left-hand list) > Composition & Addressing, and un-tick "Compose
messages in HTML format. That will make plain text the default (when you
just click "Compose"), and if you occasionally want to compose in HTML
you can use Shift+Compose to do that (as Stanimir mentioned, it gives
the opposite of your default).
--
Mark.
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