Sending format in Thunderbird

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 4:59:49 pm Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > 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...
>

That behavior is, IMO, better than ecoding plain text as HTML as Outlook does. 
Why encode plain text? I think it's a great feature.

Tim
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