Sending format in Thunderbird

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:24:49 am Jorge Almeida wrote:
> 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...
>

OK. I just did a little test by using t-bird to send an e-mail. It appears as 
though thunderbird will only encode the message as HTML if you actually have 
HTML formatting within the message body. If all you do is type the message 
out without using any HTML (making it bold, italicized or whatever), 
thunderbird will compose the message in plain text.

HTH, 
Tim

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