[wellylug] Thunderbird 1.5 question

[Carl Turney]

Hi Guys,

I've been running Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 on a *Fedora Core 5* system for 
about 2 years now.  (Will upgrade to new platform and Evolution in a 
couple months, but in the mean time...)

Have always used just plain ASCII as my output... worked fine.  :-D

But now have a new job and the boss wants me (a) to use another "work" 
identity (which I've just set up and it works fine, both send and 
receive) and (b) to send my "work" emails out with fonts, colours, and 
embedded graphics.

In Edit, Account Settings, (for =both= accounts), Composing and 
Addressing, I've now got HTML set ON.

I've created/copied a template message into the "work" account's 
Template folder.  It has all the text tweaking and company logo etc.  
You can see it as you're composing with it.

But, when I double click on this template message, fill in the To: and 
Subject: lines and send it off to my other email accounts (e.g. my 
original still-functioning Thunderbird identity, and a few webmails I 
also have)...  All I get is ASCII text.  (Maybe that's all the webmails 
can handle, not sure.)

Can anyone suggest which steps to take, or which pages on Mozilla 
website address this problem?

Thanks,

Carl
Lower Hutt

p.s.  Will see if this "original identity's" email will go out with the 
red, the bold, and the smiley, above.