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Force Mail to display plain text by default
Authored by: hsluiman on Nov 15, '05 02:50:30AM

Still works for me (OS X 10.4.3, Mail 2.0.5) but I have the opposite question: what if I want to revert to the original setting, i.e. to re-enable the display of html mail? I looked at the pref file but wasn't sure where to make the necessary changes. Actually I deleted some bits that I thought forced mail to display plain text but that screwed up Mail, luckily I had made a backup before I started to mess around with it...



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Force Mail to display plain text by default
Authored by: pheon2 on Nov 16, '05 11:09:58AM

defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool FALSE

should work, but...

I still can't get it to work. OS X 10.4.3 and Mail 2.0.5. Mail still insists on displaying that horrible html stuff.

By the way

defaults read com.apple.mail

should display all the default options for mail. Could someone post the result for a setup where Mail does not display html?







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