Hi Adrian, > On 16. Jan, 2021, at 23:46, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote: > > That is trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
yes, but sometimes, just sometimes, things in the olden days were just better. :-) > Too many GUI email interfaces these days that use 'advanced` formatting. I > use Thunderbird and it allows me to convert incoming to plain text on the > fly. Not a perfect system, but it cuts down on a lot of the garish content. I'm on a Mac w/ Big Sur (macOS 11.1) and use Apple Mail. I've been on Macs since 2003. Apple Mail is simple to use and I love it for exactly that. But Apple Mail has everything I expect a mail client to have, it does not allow a couple of things which other mail clients might have. Some people hate it for exactly that. I set Mail to always compose in plain text but there is no way of manipulating incoming mails other than that automatic displaying remote content (HTML links, etc.) can (and should) be turned off. Asking our ex don't-be-evil friend revealed a setting for Apple Mail: defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE But that doesn't work (anymore?), at least not with Big Sur. So I sometimes resort to either hit cmd-opt-u to see the mail text raw source, or better yet, just hit reply and then drop the reply after reading. As I set composing to plain text, it will convert any quoted parts. Sometimes, I just copy/paste the whole mail for reading over to TextMate, which is also sub-optimal but obviously also gives me non-proportional font reading. Still, this is somewhat cumbersome as I have to do that for each mail individually. Thank god, this doesn't happen too often. Yet, it's still annoying enough. > That is a learning curve thing. Many people don't know that copy and paste > exists for terminals/GUI's/etc. Most people, once they are pointed in the > right direction, will change that habit. That is why I would not advocate > dropping non plain text attachments. Take this as a teaching moment and > explain the reason why text is a benefit. I guess, they only change their behavior because copying/pasting some text is easier to do than creating a windowshot with aligning the frame manually, etc. But whatever the reason, thank god, some people are willing to learn that if being told. Cheers, Paul
