Re: Telling Mail to never compose HTML

In article
<alpine.OSX.1.00.0802101122560.93076@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am using the Mail.app in 10.5.1 and I have set the compose preferences
to be plain text and also have unchecked "Use same format as the
original message".

Yet there are time when Mail.app has me compose HTML messages.
This happens with some replies, but also with "New" messages.

If I cannot find a way of preventing this, I will have to give up on
Mail.app.

In Microsoft Entourage, there is a setting called "Reply to message in
the format in which they were sent". If you clear that checkbox, and
Entourage is set to use Plain Text for new messages, Entourage will
never use HTML. Are you sure there is no such checkbox in Mail?

I also find it annoying that Mail.app refers to HTML as "Rich Text". I
would not so strongly object to mail composition in text/enriched (which
is NOT rtf), but HTML mail is well beyond the pale.

Yes, I find that annoying as well. It's misleading at best, dishonest at
worst.

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