User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050402 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050402 When attempting to forward a message with a specified background color, the background color appears as white. This is particulary annoying when the text in the message is white. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Receive a message with a background color 2. Try to forward it or edit-as-new to send it back out 3. Actual Results: The background color is white Expected Results: The background color should be that of the original email.

Edit as New on an HTML message is preserving the color for me. Forward Inline (I assume you're forwarding Inline, rather than As Attachment) on an HTML message does forward only some of the formatting of the original message, but I don't see the problem with "white text on white background" because the original message's text color is also not maintained. Can you provide a sample message that exhibits the problem? (Save as a .EML file and attach to this bug using the Create New Attachment link, above.)

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This should be re-opened. Even the most trivial examples always fail. Attached is a simple message created in SeaMonkey 1.0.7. on XP. If you read it, the background is yellow. If you then "edit as new" the background turns white.

If you read this email created in seamonkey, the background is yellow. But when you "edit as new" or forward inline, the background goes white.

Tested with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008032702 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:2008032702 Edit as new always retains the background color for me, however a case can be made for forward inline, which does drop the background color, but retains the font color. White text on white background can result. The same case can be made for html replies which also drop the background color while retaining the font colors.

CC wsmWK as Tomcat suggested he might know of a "special case" bug for this.

sorry, I don't know of a related bug and don't personally use html

Confirm comment #6: this issue is WFM because when reply\forward a message, TB use personal settings in menu-->tools-->options tab Composition-->general. John please try with lastest TB at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ ? and feel free to reopen this bug if I'm wrong. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091118 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0.1pre ID:20091118034000