Daniel Hahler Reporter
	Description • 11 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307122903

Steps to reproduce:

The Enigmail addon changes the default of mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed to false, to work around problems with PGP-inline messages.

Enigmail (and probably other extensions) would benefit from a per-window composer setting, which controls format=flowed for this instance.

This way Enigmail could default to disabling format=flowed, if PGP-inline is used instead of PGP/MIME.

See also http://www.enigmail.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=465 and http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/53/ for the Enigmail related discussion.

	rsx11m
	Comment 1 • 11 years ago

This code lives in mailnews/compose/src/nsMsgCompUtils.cpp, UseFormatFlowed().

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 2 • 7 years ago

Is this still needed?  (bug is still unconfirmed state)

ref: Patrick's most recent comment in https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/53/#a267

	Patrick Brunschwig
	Comment 3 • 7 years ago

As I wrote, we changed the default in Enigmail more than a year ago. But people still want to write inline-PGP, and hence are affected by this problem. But I don't think that a GUI option to change this is a good idea -- it's far too technical for normal users.

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 4 • 7 years ago

Thanks for clarifying, Patrick. To quote the last two comments form sourceforge...

Tom Dexter - 2017-07-30
I just spent the better part of a DAY trying to figure out why text emails saved as drafts where totally broken by erroneously added hard line breaks, when what appeared to be the exact same configuration on another machine worked fine. I didn't figure it out until I stumbled on the last comment here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155622
Which eventually lead me here. When I compiled 52.2 under Gentoo enigmail was enabled by default no less...changing the default. Given that that flowed setting set to false makes text email almost unusable (yea, I really want to have to totally reformat every paragraph I add a word to), this is a REALLY ugly default to silently screw with. Worse yet, I spent hours looking at everything referencing "wrap" in the config editor, when the key setting has nothing of the sort in the name. Not pleased at all.
 
Patrick Brunschwig
Patrick Brunschwig - 2017-07-31
Format=flowed is only an issue for inline-PGP messages (which are considered deprecated, and not longer used by default). If drafts are encrypted, then Enigmail will always use PGP/MIME. In this case format=flowed doesn't matter, as Enigmail would not change the message in the slightest way. If the draft is not encrypted, then Enigmail does not play any part.

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 5 • 7 years ago

given comment 3 and comment 4, is this wontfix?

	Richard Marti (:Paenglab)
	Comment 6 • 7 years ago

I'm too for wontfix. This setting is too special to expose in composer window.

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 7 • 7 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. Closing, but open to other insightful feedback