Do you have plain text selected in the recipients address book entry? Do you have any add-ons?

Hi Matt, - I'm not sure what you mean by "plain text selected in the recipients address book entry". I looked around in the address book, and in some recipients' entries, but didn't see a selection for 'plain text'.

In my Options > Composition > General > Send options, I have HTML selected.

This is happening to ANY email I reply to (i.e., all entries in the address book).

Again, this is happening only to the sender's email text when I do a reply. I've attached part of a screen shot of an email I did a "Reply" to.

This is not happening if I use SeaMonkey, and this never happened before.

My addons: Lightning, GContactSync, and Restartless Restart.

Thanks!

vickilh2 said

Hi Matt, - I'm not sure what you mean by "plain text selected in the recipients address book entry". I looked around in the address book, and in some recipients' entries, but didn't see a selection for 'plain text'.

The unknown.

In my Options > Composition > Gene Send options, I have HTML selected.

There is also a per account entry. Right click the account on the folder pane, select settings. and then composition and addressing for the account.

This is happening to ANY email I reply to (i.e., all entries in the address book). Again, this is happening only to the sender's email text when I do a reply. I've attached part of a screen shot of an email I did a "Reply" to.

That probably indicates reply to is replying from a different account that your default.

I changed the setting to make Thunderbird my default mail client. Restarted TB, -- no change.

Checked account settings -- Gmail (on top) in bold IS my default email account.

I went to address book and changed the "Unknown" to HTML for a few entries, initiated a Reply to an email of theirs, - no change.

HOWEVER -- I tried replying with my 2nd, non-default email account. No bright blue sender text! I tried making this account the default but TB refused to do that, kept Gmail the default.

Hmmm. Very odd! I didn't change any settings in my Gmail account.

Thank you!

I do not see where you checked the compositions and addressing setting for your account. For all accounts for that matter.

OMG - you've done it! Somehow the "Compose msgs in html format" got unchecked. I've never paid any attention to that.

Thank you so much for your help and perseverance!!!