I put these lines in my prefs file to try to turn on plaintext compose: user_pref("mail.identity.id1.compose_html", false); user_pref("mail.identity.id0.compose_html", false); then ran apprunner -compose. It still gave me an html compose window, didn't check my prefs, though if I run apprunner -mail and then bring up a compose window from there, I correctly get a plaintext compose window.

Probably related to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15238 where we don't check that preference if the user has not logged in yet.

Thanks, Lisa -- yes, this is a dup of that one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15238 ***

verified as duplicate.