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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite
Date: 12 May 2015 14:04:39 GMT
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On 2015-05-12, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <mio9k0$sh9$2@odin.sdf-eu.org> 
>   dyera@not.freeshell.org.invalid <dyera@not.freeshell.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, but it is either not working or there was no plain text to 
>> display.
>
> The preference *does* work, but many styled emails do not contain a
> plain-text alternative. You can always view source to see if the email
> has only styled or mime or base64 text.

It certainly doesn't work in Mail 8.2 (2098) on OS X 10.10. 

I just looked at an iTunes Store receipt message, and verified that it
is multipart and contains a text/plain part, yet Mail displays the HTML
and not the plain text.

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JR