"HTML Mail Quesrion"

[Ken Herrick]

Greetings-

When we select Tools|Options|Composition|Send|Text Options|"Ask me what to do", we get the subject-titled advisory which includes, "Some of the recipients are not listed as being able to receive HTML..." and "Would you like to convert the message to plain text...?". To me these are erroneous wordings.

First, the recipient(s) of the email may or may not be able to receive HTML--not "are not": prior to sending the email whether-or-not is not known by Thunderbird.

Secondly, "convert the message to plain text" implies that at least some of what's in the HTML object(s) is to be "converted", whereas it seems that any HTML objects are in fact merely stripped from the email.

Should not, then, those wordings be something like "Some of the recipient(s) may not be able..." and "Would you like to send only the plain text...?"?

Can this be passed along to T'Bird?

Ken Herrick

[DanRaisch]

1. Thunderbird includes a setting in the Address Book contact records that allow one to indicate whether that particular contact prefers to receive in plain text or HTML or unknown. If that field indicates one of those values other than HTML the text of that query would be correct.

2. In some cases HTML elements may be stripped but other elements may be converted to text equivalents. That could be the case with bold font, italic font, or smilies, so that text is also potentially correct.

3. Even if any of those statements are incorrectly worded, you're bringing it to the attention of the wrong people. This forum is not run by or formally associated with Mozilla. We're an independent user-helping-user community. ,