Sending format in Thunderbird

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 5:11:26 am Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:
>>> That's where you configure the send options for recipients who are marked
>>> to not accept HTML mail in your address book.
>>>
>>> To compose messages in HTML all the time, you need to Edit - Account
>>> Settings - Composition & Addressing
>>
>> I want text format, usually. But I tried what you say and it keeps
>> sending in text/plain (it looks like html when composing, but the
>> headers show text/plain). I just would like to understand what going on.
>>
>
> That's where the "Prefers to receive messages as" setting on the recipient's
> address book entry will come into play. If the recipient (in this case you)
> is configured to prefer plain text mail, then T-bird will send the mail
> formatted acording to the setting under Edit-Preferenses-Composition-Send
> Options-Text Format.
>
It still does not compute. The entry in the address book is not
configured ("unknown"). Since html is checked (for testing purposes!) in
Account settings, I should receive a html mail.
Never been lucky with mozilla stuff...

Jorge