Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite
Date	2015-05-12 14:28 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnml43io.k8a.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
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In message <crefjnFmmulU1@mid.individual.net> 
  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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. 

<looks>

Well I'll be damned. I'd assumed those emails jsut didn't have an HTML
part.

Thankfully, then, most email I get is plain-text. Sheesh.

> 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.

Yep. Annoying, that.

-- 
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?  The Death of Rats looked
up from the feast of potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand
dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY *ME*, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF
THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE. --The Truth

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Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite dyera@not.freeshell.org.invalid - 2015-05-06 04:51 +0000
  Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-05-06 13:19 +0000
    Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite dyera@not.freeshell.org.invalid - 2015-05-10 18:52 +0000
      Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-05-12 01:06 +0000
  Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-05-07 20:49 +0000
    Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite dyera@not.freeshell.org.invalid - 2015-05-10 18:56 +0000
      Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-05-12 05:43 +0000
        Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-05-12 14:04 +0000
          Re: Mail.app font for messages - Yosemite Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-05-12 14:28 +0000

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