On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:

> I use Mail in 10.6 but I have it set to display rich text. Now I see why it's 
> hated. 

Do this:

Quit Mail.
Open terminal, and enter the following:

defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE

Start Mail again.

Now your eyes, in Dan's parlance, don't bleed any more.

If you ever want to see the rich text version of any message merely press 
option-command-]; it'll then show the next alternative, which usually suffices 
to show the 'rich' version of any message.

After a while it's becomes second nature, like command-s to save...

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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