Recently the HTML encoding for signatures in Thunderbird has stoppeed working.
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	WetGeek
	Jul 1 2023, 9:53 PM

Description

Summary

I've used Thunderbird for email for years, and the signatures I've always used for outgoing emails has always been defined as using HTML, and looking like this:

Jerry Houston <br>
Bothell, WA USA

Those signatures have always been rendered correctly until today. Now, instead of executing the HTML break command, the signature is just like the above. Just plain text.

Steps to reproduce

In Thunderbird, open the Account Settings and choose to use HTML for the signature.

Then create the signature for that account using HTML as above.

Close the Account Settings page, and click to start a message using that account.

Expected result

I expected the <br> to be interpreted as a newline (a break in the text).

Actual result

The signature wasn't evaluated as HTML, but displayed as plain text, exactly like what was entered in the account settings textbox.

Environment

DELL 5580 Latitude laptop running Solus Plasma. Fully updated as of today.

Event Timeline

WetGeek created this task.Jul 1 2023, 9:53 PM

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This Thunderbird instance supports three email accounts. So there are three entries in the Account Settings, all of them using the same method to define a signiture. After I created this report, it occurred to me to check whether the other accounts are working.

Of the three accounts, only the first displays this problem. (That's the account I used to send an email today.) The second and third accounts display the signiture in its processed form.

Of course, I examined all three account entries in the Account Settings, and they're essentially identical. The first uses the name "Jerry Houston," and the second and third entries are for "WetGeek," but otherwise they're identical. And I double-checked that starting an email using the first acount still displays the signature in plain text.

FALSE ALARM: I checked the account settings again, and discovered that I hadn't checked the { X } Use HTML property on that account's settings. The text box entries were all nearly identical, but not the checkbox.

Although I've used Thunderbird for years, this is a new Solus installation on this computer. Sorry for any confusion I caused.

EbonJaeger closed this task as Invalid.Jul 1 2023, 10:26 PM

Recently the HTML encoding for signatures in Thunderbird has stoppeed working.Closed, InvalidPublicBUGActions