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Works for me!
Authored by: jbc on Jul 16, '03 01:36:14PM

This hint works great on my system (OSX 10.2.6, Mail 1.2.5)!

I've been looking for this solution for a long time. I'd been considering switching to mutt or some other email client, simply because of Mail's stupid insistence on displaying html as the default. How Apple could overlook such a basic and necessary preference is beyond me, and my tolerance for having to try to read microscopic html text was getting progressively less. Many thanks to the poster of this hint. Made my day!

robg- Are you taliking about "Content-Type: text/html" mails or "Content-Type: multipart/(alternative|mixed)" mails with an html part? This is working fine for my multipart emails. I can't check what this does with text/html mails (these are deleted from the server before I get them, which is effective in blocking a ton of spam), but it could be that Mail is displaying the html content as html rather than text when html is all that's available. Just a thought.



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Works for me!
Authored by: osxpounder on Jan 03, '05 05:37:42PM

You mentioned "microscopic" text. Just wanted to point out that, in Mail, you can use CMD-+ [if you've got a keyboard with the 10-key numpad on the right side] to enlarge text. Sadly, CMD-= doesn't work for this, although some other apps, such as Safari, let you use CMD-= to enlarge text. I'm not lucky enough to have access to a PowerBook, so I don't know what you can do on that keyboard.

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