In the compose window, when you choose Message | Format | Plain Text, one would expect the message being edited to be converted to plain text immediately (after a warning message maybe), and editing mode switched to plain text.

That may be hard? Would the compose window automatically change to the plain text window?

With the current architectureI would very hard to switch on the fly from HTML to plain text. Worst, if later the user decide to come back to HTML, we would have lost all the original HTML formatting. The purpose of this menu item is to specify only the format while sending the message (feature not yet implemented. Maybe we should fine a better label for it!

verified as won't fix. perhaps the wording can be better? cc: jglick

In Outlook Express, this feature works as originally reported. Changing from Formatted text to Plain text displays a warning dialog (can be turned off) and then switches on the fly to Plain text (formattng toolbar goes away). User can switch back on the fly, but any formatting is NOT returned (formatting toolbar returns). We could change the wording, maybe something like, "Send the message as Plain text", "Send the message as Formatting text". Kinda wordy for a menu though. And users may still expect it to change on the fly. I'm not sure what to do about this one. Maybe Simone can help us with better wording, but I think the current implementation will cause some confusion.

How about: Message | Send format or Message | Format | Send as Plain Text/HTML/both Btw: in plain text mode, the menu still shows all three options; but it really doesn't make sense to send as HTML or Plain Text & HTML if the message is composed as Plain Text. And: Once the send format option is chosen, it should be displayed somewhere, if only with a check mark in the menu, and a warning message should appear on send if Plain Text is selected but the message was composed in HTML.