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(Get the code!)
So, we've been duping bug requests against this for 8 years; are we thinking of ever fixing this? This is related to other format bugs like bug 509316 and bug 470062.
I realize solving this 'perfectly' might take a fair bit of work and have tricky constraints - but instead we're not solving it at all. Solve the primary cases and take bugs that it doesn't handle certain edge cases.
To be clear: I'd be happy with basic conversion as if it was sent to an address/domain that's not marked as wanting HTML or as if I'd used 'shift+reply' (which I never found until reading these bugs, which is about as bad as the feature not being there).
This really is an overall design issue about how editing happens and when conversion happens. What I'd state is that the current state is simply badly unsatisfactory for people who ever need to send plain-text messages, as well as being confusing. ("hiding the HTML format bar" (but really still editing in and showing HTML) when selecting plain-text is confusing and surprising to users.)