Sending format in Thunderbird

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:24:49 am Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
OK, that must be it. It does violate the Principle of Least Surprise. It
doesn't induce amiable feelings towards intelligent software...Ah, well...
> HTH,
> Tim
Thanks,

Jorge