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From: Mike Easter on 18 Mar 2010 10:52
FredW wrote:
> Mike Easter

>> Re my issue: it turns out that Tb3 doesn't really have a plaintext
>> mode/editor that works properly. If you want to get anything done
>> right, you have to work in html mode, which was 'channeled' into Tb from
>> the Moz Corp people, not the Moz Messaging.
>
> If I have to switch to HTML to use TB3, I will consider moving to a
> different e-mail program.
> (I never send anything in HTML)

The tb3 f=f workaround doesn't require one to /send/ in html; the
sending can be done in plaintext.

The account settings is where tb3 would be configured to compose
messages in html. In that configuration, the composing window has an
Options menu which allows you to send as plaintext only.

> I do not use TB as a newsreader, I tried it a while,
> but I prefer my Forte Agent 4.2
> ;-)

Regarding f=f, Agent is an illustration of a reader which doesn't /do/
f=f in its plaintext, but it *respects* the necessary trailing spaces of
cited f=f, which is the problem with tb3.

Tb2 does/posts f=f and compliantly respects the trailing spaces of
preceding quoted material. That is rfc compliant.

Tb3 without workaround does/posts f=f and noncompliantly strips the
trailing spaces of preceding quoted material. That is noncompliant.
Tb3 with the html dance does not strip those spaces.

> I will read the comments of Timo Pietila in mozilla.support.thunderbird.

He is an admin in some kind of environment which causes him to be
responsible for what some significant number of users are using as their
mailuser agent. He is trying to decide whether to drop Tbird2 in favor
of something else; because he definitely isn't going to convert them to
tb3.


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Mike Easter
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