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Bug 654202 - thunderbird:the text alignment of a message is missing
Summary: thunderbird:the text alignment of a message is missing
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: thunderbird
Version: 6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 654264
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-17 07:18 UTC by wang jinghui
Modified: 2014-07-25 03:42 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 654264 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-12-08 16:03:54 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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5 files in the attachment,please extract first. (827.13 KB, application/x-gzip)
2010-11-30 09:46 UTC, wang jinghui 		no flags Details
MessageFormatOption.png from the archive (229.83 KB, image/png)
2010-12-08 15:31 UTC, Matěj Cepl 		no flags Details
messageWithCorrectAlignment.eml from the archive (1.27 KB, text/plain)
2010-12-08 15:31 UTC, Matěj Cepl 		no flags Details
MessageWithWrongAlignment.eml from the archive (699 bytes, text/plain)
2010-12-08 15:31 UTC, Matěj Cepl 		no flags Details
Composition & Addressing.png from the archive (335.16 KB, image/png)
2010-12-08 15:33 UTC, Matěj Cepl 		no flags Details
View&Message Body As.png from the archive (291.44 KB, image/png)
2010-12-08 15:33 UTC, Matěj Cepl 		no flags Details
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Description wang jinghui 2010-11-17 07:18:10 UTC 
Description of problem:
Create a message with Center or Right alignment text,send the message.Get the message, the Center or Right alignment text align left

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-3.1.6-1

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch the thunderbird.
2.Create a message with some Center alignment text and Right alignment text .
3.Send the message to yourself and open the message
  
Actual results:
The text with Center or Right alignment is all align left

Expected results:
The text with Center or Right alignment should be align center or right
Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2010-11-29 10:34:29 UTC 
Please, attach a screenshot of your "Composition & Addressing" page from the configuration of the account in question. Also, make sure you sent our the email as HTML (not as plain text).

Also, what's the current setting of View/Message Body As?

Could you also attach example email message which present the issue?

Thank you in advance
Comment 3 wang jinghui 2010-11-30 09:39:19 UTC 
Package:thunderbird-3.1.6-1

When we new a message in the thunderbird,we can select the message format by
click Options->Format->Auto-Detect(Deault),Plain Text Only,Rich Text(HTML)
Only,Plain and Rich (HTML) Text.The default setting for my thunderbird is
Auto-Detect,if I select Plain and Rich (HTML) Text,re-step 2-3 in the bug
description,I got an email with the correct alignment.

Anyway If I create a message with some Center alignment text and Right
alignment text and set the Options->Format to Auto-Detect,the thunderbird
should detect the correct format for the user rather then losing the text
format setted by the user.
Comment 4 wang jinghui 2010-11-30 09:46:47 UTC 
Created attachment 463680 [details]
5 files in the attachment,please extract first.

5 files in the attachment,please extract first.
1.Composition & Addressing.png(The pic of Composition-->Addressing)
2.messageWithCorrectAlignment.eml(The message create by Plain and Rich (HTML))
3.MessageWithWrongAlignment.eml(The message create by Auto-Detect(Deault))
4.MessageFormatOption.png(The format setting when create a message)
5.View&Message Body As.png（The pic of View&Message Body As）
Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2010-12-08 15:31:15 UTC 
Created attachment 467500 [details]
MessageFormatOption.png from the archive
Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2010-12-08 15:31:22 UTC 
Created attachment 467501 [details]
messageWithCorrectAlignment.eml from the archive
Comment 7 Matěj Cepl 2010-12-08 15:31:28 UTC 
Created attachment 467502 [details]
MessageWithWrongAlignment.eml from the archive
Comment 8 Matěj Cepl 2010-12-08 15:33:04 UTC 
Created attachment 467504 [details]
Composition & Addressing.png from the archive
Comment 9 Matěj Cepl 2010-12-08 15:33:18 UTC 
Created attachment 467505 [details]
View&Message Body As.png from the archive
Comment 10 Matěj Cepl 2010-12-08 16:03:54 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> Created attachment 467504 [details]
> Composition & Addressing.png from the archive

From account settings, not general Preferences, but that's OK. From the attached email examples it is obvious what's going on here.

Problem lies in Options/Format/Auto setting, which is very confusing and in my opinion poorly design setting. The heuristics by which Thunderbird decides whether the message should be sent as HTML or as plain text is just poor.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584363 and especially http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/can_i_completely_turn_off_the_buggy_auto_detect_on_composition for longer discussion of these problems.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is the issue we should fix here, it should be resolved somehow upstream.

Closing as UPSTREAM. If you want me to file a bug upstream, suggest what should be the bug about, I will do it, but honestly I am not sure.
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