Sometimes when composing a reply to an email in Mail, the send button - the paper plane - turned blue. I've been trying to find out why that was, in the end thinking it was some sort of bug. Until I found out today that a blue plane means you are sending a rich text message, whereas a white plane tells you you are sending a plain text message. Other people have probably found this out months ago, but i thought i would submit this for the slow people amongst us, like me!
[Editor's note: I had never seen a blue "send" plane in Mail, and it took a bit of experimentation to figure out why -- I set the Format option in the Compose section of the Prefs to "Plain text," and unchecked the "Use the same message format as the original" option in the Replying area of the same section. This forces all my messages into plain text mode -- without chaning these options, even switching a message manually to rich text mode had no impact. Once I switched these settings, I indeed saw the blue "send" plane when in rich text mode.]
[Editor's note: I had never seen a blue "send" plane in Mail, and it took a bit of experimentation to figure out why -- I set the Format option in the Compose section of the Prefs to "Plain text," and unchecked the "Use the same message format as the original" option in the Replying area of the same section. This forces all my messages into plain text mode -- without chaning these options, even switching a message manually to rich text mode had no impact. Once I switched these settings, I indeed saw the blue "send" plane when in rich text mode.]
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