My apologies for being stupid(er than usual). I see that Mail indeed
offers message viewing control under PreferencesFonts Colors
(set it so long ago I forgot where it was), and I am undoubtedly
quite mistaken - memory fails me - that Outlook Express offered
anything more under OS 9.
At 18:37 -0500 3/19/11, Sean Carroll wrote:
A bit odd that Mail doesn't directly offer the option to view all messages as
plain text. As far as I can tell.
I haven't tried it but. . . .
defaults write is a command to be executed in terminal.app
And you might want to try:
defaults read
On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Sean Carroll wrote:
A bit odd that Mail doesn't directly offer the option to view all
messages as plain text. As far as I can tell.
The problem isn't in the receiving end, it's in the creation end.
You'll need to go to MailPreferenceComposing
At 9:56 PM -0600 3/17/2011, Alex Barnes wrote:
At least there's not flash emails going around (although I can see
us headed there)!
Go wash your brain out with soap.
/me shudders, and does a horrified squishy face, as he staggers off
to the kitchen
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I like it. Do you mind if I use it?
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On 18/03/2011 14:50PM, Robert MacLeay rmacl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 17, 9:48 pm, Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com wrote:
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It was a signature, it's allowed. You don't have to agree with
Why does anyone care about rich text/plain text. This isn't the 90's anymore!
If your computer can't read rich text then you need to do some serious updates!
My PowerBook 1400 can read rich text on Gmail's website!
Why can't the list managers make some kind of a rich text block on the lists
On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:
Why does anyone care about rich text/plain text. This isn't the 90's anymore!
If your computer can't read rich text then you need to do some serious
updates! My PowerBook 1400 can read rich text on Gmail's website!
Oh. So is that why the nannies say no to rich text?
http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ihatehtmlmail.pdf
If you can't state your problem with your words, all the ransom-note
typography and hopping smileys will not help your case.
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On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:
Oh. So is that why the nannies say no to rich text?
You'll have to ask them. It's a long-standing rule on the LEM lists, and
frankly, I've rarely seen any instance where rich text adds any useful
information, and when you have a mashed up
At 12:31 PM -0500 3/17/2011, Alex Barnes wrote:
[top posting, yadda yadda yadda]
http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ihatehtmlmail.pdf
If you can't state your problem with your words, all the
ransom-note typography and hopping smileys will not help your case.
Oh. So is that why the
I use Mail in 10.6 but I have it set to display rich text. Now I see why it's
hated.
On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:
Oh. So is that why the nannies say no to rich text?
You'll have to ask them. It's a long-standing
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
On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Alex Barnes wrote:
Why does anyone care about rich text/plain text.
People that care use correct grammar and punctuation. They also tend
to bottom post or interleave their replies because they believe top
posting is rude. Bruce has posted a good example of
Ok... I won't use read I'll use display.
Sounds like you've done some serious updating if your PowerBook 1400 has a
consciousness and can read. My computers lack consciousness and are limited
to dumb tricks like being able to display rich text, or synthesize speech
from text. I'd love to
In response to the OP's comment about slipping up and getting
reprimanded, what I do: In MailPreferencesComposing, I set the
message format to Plain Text. I do this specifically for the G-list
(although I could certainly set up a special account with this
preference only for LEM list mail
At 9:31 PM -0500 3/17/2011, Sean Carroll wrote:
A long time ago, I thought the problem with rich text/HTML mail
(synonymous terms?)
Rich text is text marked up with HTML.
was how mail servers handled it.
Never had anything to do with the mail servers. Mail servers simply
pass along
The original idea of rich text was that it would support only
simple markup, a limited number of tags. Then, as I understand it,
MS got involved and suddenly it was full-on HTML with all sorts of
MS specific malformations and such.
Aha. (Thanks for the other clarifications as well.)
Now
At 22:53 -0400 3/17/11, Dan wrote:
At 9:31 PM -0500 3/17/2011, Sean Carroll wrote:
A long time ago, I thought the problem with rich text/HTML mail (synonymous
terms?)
Rich text is text marked up with HTML.
Practically true so long as the discussion is limited to mail; Two possible
At least there's not flash emails going around (although I can see us headed
there)!
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