OT: Force Thunderbird NEVER to use HTML?

[Richard England]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 21:43 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to tell Thunderbird that I NEVER want to send
>>> HTML mail? 
>>
>>
>> Open the preferences.  Make the preferences window bigger as some things
>> don't fit, and you don't get a clear indication that only some things
>
> I made it as big as would fit on my screen.
>
>> are showing.  Go over to the "composition" tab, and then the "general"
>
> I have no "tabs". I do have a selection menu on the left, which
> includes "composition".
>
>> sub-tab.  Then click on the "configure text format behaviour" "send
>
> No tabs, nothing marked "general". It does have sections for
>
> Forwarding, which can in "in-line" or "attachment",
> Composing, which can enable things like spell checking
> Address autocompletion, and
> Send and HTML options... which leads to a means
> to select domains for HTML vs TEXT, which is what I
> asked about. I don't want to enter every domain in the
> world.
>
>> options" button.  Chose the "convert message to plain text" option.
>>
>> That *should* send all messages as text, unless you set something to be
>> able to receive HTML.
>
> My version seems not to work like yours.
>
> I'd write more about it, but Thunderbird won't let me compose
> and look around at the same time.
>
> Mike

Mike,

What does  the pull down menu  "Help > About Thunderbird"  tell you the 
version is?

~~R