Using Mac OS X build 2002041603 When in Mail, if choose File->New->Message then I get a Plain Text Message Compose window that can not be changed to another Format. The problem is that there is no Options->Format menu accessible. Steps to reproduce : 1) Open Mail/News component of Mozilla 2) Copy some plain text to the clipboard (do not copy HTML) 3) Select File->New->Message to open a new message compose window Results : New Message Compse window is in plain text mode (triggered by clipboard contents) which does not have the Formatting Toolbar and there is no Options->Format menu. Expected Results : Whether the message window is plain text or not, the user should be able to go to the Options menu and change the format. Reproducible : Always Note that if you go to File->New->Message from Navigator or use the Compose button in the Mail/News component, the results are different and you get a Rich Text (HTML) Compose window instead of a Plain Text menu. You still can not use the Options->Format menu to change the Format, but at least it is there. This may be related to the following bugs, but neither of them seem to directly address this issue : bug 77221 bug 82514 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020416)

I have duplicated this bug on Win2000, running build 2002041603.

Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002041712 (RC1).

probably the same cause than bug 142880

*** Bug 182055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 181739 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is still present in 3.0.11 --- Options->Format only appears if you create a HTML message, which means that if your account is set to create plain text messages then it's impossible to change the format of the message after the compose window has appeared. As someone who mostly uses plain text but occasionally has to send HTML, this is very annoying. Is there any action on this?

For a workaround use the Compose button in the Main Toolbar. To create a HTML message composing window you can: Hold the SHIFT key down an then click the Compose button. Or use the dropdown menu of the Compose button.