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thunderbird: reply in HTML format

Software - 24/07/2006 @ 23:47



Thunderbird has a little problem about writing mail in HTML or TEXT format. Once you configured HTML or TEXT format, you cannot switch between them on the fly. So, this is quite nice tip if you want to choose on the fly if write an HTML or TEXT mail.

If you would like to send in HTML format, hold the SHIFT key while pressing the REPLY TO button (or the WRITE NEW MAIL one). This will allow you to compose one HTML mail even if you configured your THUNDERBIRD to compose always in TEXT format.

And please… write TEXT mails. Don’t fuck them up with HTML stupid formatting…


66 Responses to “thunderbird: reply in HTML format”

stefaniaNo Gravatar says on July 27th, 2006 at 5:25 pm

great post, dude!
i found it useful: i’ll send an amazing html e-mail with thunderbird one of these day! ;)

MichaelNo Gravatar says on August 5th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

Thanks for the help. I usually write all my emails in text, but on occasion need to forward HTML emails. I was baffled until I read your note.

OwenNo Gravatar says on September 17th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

One year on this post is still helping out. Thanks to you and Google.

PeterNo Gravatar says on November 22nd, 2007 at 9:37 pm

i second Owen’s posting

NickNo Gravatar says on January 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am

Life saver! Thanks!

SivaNo Gravatar says on March 27th, 2008 at 11:37 am

Thanks for this useful tip.

Probably Thunderbird should add a menu item Message > Reply using HTML (or toggled with text in the other case) as I had been hunting for this for a long time :(.

Bruno AfonsoNo Gravatar says on May 15th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Really helpful. Too bad it doesn’t work with shortcuts! :(

I avoid the mouse as much as possible :-)

dilipmNo Gravatar says on July 26th, 2008 at 6:40 am

perfect tip! cheers

jackNo Gravatar says on August 26th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

Just what I’m after – ta.

dusoftNo Gravatar says on October 1st, 2008 at 11:08 am

thanks for the tip, it doesn’t work for Forward though. any ideas about this?

I know I can use reply and then just change address, but it would be nice to make it work for forward as well.

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bugloafNo Gravatar says on February 14th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

For forwarding in HTML, just hit shift + Reply and change the address to the person you want to forward to.

aSKerNo Gravatar says on March 10th, 2009 at 4:49 pm

thanks !! very helpful post!

DanNo Gravatar says on May 18th, 2009 at 11:53 am

Brilliant, thanks for the tip :)

PerilousNo Gravatar says on August 14th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

This is awesome – I send everything in plain text, but sometimes MUST reply to certain emails in HTML (for business reasons). Not having a way to do this has driven me CRAZY for the longest time. Your tip solves this problem at long last. Thank you so much!

ChrisNo Gravatar says on August 18th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

I am surprised this doesn’t work with Forward. I use Reply and change the addresses as bugloaf suggests, but Forward should work.

CathyNo Gravatar says on October 13th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

Check out this article… explains how to change the default settings for sending mail so it doesn’t ask you each time you send a message.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_%28Thunderbird%29

greenpossumNo Gravatar says on March 2nd, 2010 at 3:20 am

It’s not clear from your tip, but just to clarify, shift chooses THE OTHER format. So if your default is TEXT, it chooses HTML, and vice versa.

Also the default is per identity. The default formatting depends on which From: you want to be. You can edit this under Manage identities. This might be useful for people who have always to reply using HTML for some accounts.

dusoftNo Gravatar says on March 3rd, 2010 at 3:43 pm

Thank you for the great tip!

fredNo Gravatar says on March 16th, 2010 at 7:20 pm

awesome dude!! It reverses the default.

StephenNo Gravatar says on May 21st, 2010 at 12:55 pm

Excellent tip. Like others I occasionally need to send an HTML email and this makes life that bit easier.

jacopoLNo Gravatar says on August 17th, 2010 at 5:09 pm

great!! fantastic tip!

frankNo Gravatar says on September 19th, 2010 at 7:35 pm

Thanks for the tip, after 4 years and two months still helpful. Regards from The Netherlands!

TekGemsNo Gravatar says on September 24th, 2010 at 2:28 am

Shift-Reply. Excellent tip! I did not know this and had been searching for days for an add-on that would do this. I wonder what other great things Mozilla Thunderbird can do that I do not know about!

BaldoNo Gravatar says on October 16th, 2010 at 6:37 pm

thanks!!! :D

keeNo Gravatar says on October 22nd, 2010 at 2:36 pm

Thanks for a great tip
It was really annoyig me!

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FranklyNo Gravatar says on November 24th, 2010 at 11:41 am

Great post, has been a point of annoyance for me ever since i use thunderbird which is – besides this issue – a kick-ass mailclient (imo).

B00zeNo Gravatar says on November 30th, 2010 at 4:15 am

Nice! I was looking for just that! Amazing, 4 years later ;-) And it now works with Forward (TB3), weeee…

JayNo Gravatar says on December 7th, 2010 at 6:26 pm

Thanks for this tip. I have wondered about this (Reply in HTML when my default is set to Plain Text) for years. It is amazing the TB developers have not put this on the menu.

BUT… Thunderbird/3.1.6
in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027

running on Ubuntu 8.0.4 (Hardy) Linux, what is copied to the SENT folder is PLAIN TEXT?

The Compose came up in HTML, but since the what ended up in my Sent folder is Plain Text, I now don’t know what the recipient actually received.

fredNo Gravatar says on December 8th, 2010 at 2:05 am

GOOD CATCH, very interesting … bug(?) … yeah, that’s a bug.

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SanderNo Gravatar says on February 22nd, 2011 at 4:47 pm

There should be a way to forward HTML emails without converting them to plain text, I thought. And yes it’s there, hidden below the shift key. Very clean and clever but if you implement something like that how should the user know?

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