Plain text email in Apple Mail
In Apple Mail, you can customize your client so that all emails are shown in plain text. Reading plain text email is not sexy, but it does protect you from attempts that spammers try to hide using HTML in emails.
To set up your email this way you need to enter a terminal window and type this command
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE
You then need to exit Mail and restart it. If you change your mind and you want to see emails rendered in HTML again, you can run the command again and change TRUE to FALSE.
If instead of doing this across the board, you want to see one particular email in plain text because you are suspicious of it, you can do that too. While looking at the email, go to View > Message > Plain Text Alternative in the menu bar and Mail will show you a plain-text version of the email.
To set up your email this way you need to enter a terminal window and type this command
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE
You then need to exit Mail and restart it. If you change your mind and you want to see emails rendered in HTML again, you can run the command again and change TRUE to FALSE.
If instead of doing this across the board, you want to see one particular email in plain text because you are suspicious of it, you can do that too. While looking at the email, go to View > Message > Plain Text Alternative in the menu bar and Mail will show you a plain-text version of the email.
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| Categories: | Mac Apple Mail customization security |
| Added: | on Aug 22, 2008 at 12:53 pm |
| Added By: | an anonymous user |
