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Messages not sent as HTML
One of the biggest problems folks have and hate about MacMail is that it does not send new email messages as HTML unless you explicitly do something to alter the Font (this is a known bug that Apple refuses to address). I always want to have my email sent as HTML. So I tried setting the Text Format dropdown to "Send the message in HTML anyway" in the Send Options dialog (in Preferences). Unfortunately, it is still sent as text when you compose a new email and just type text in the body without explicitly changing the font. Microsoft Outlook and Entourage both send as HTML when you tell it to. Why can't Postbox?
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Inappropriate?Not sure I understand the problem Randy. By default Postbox defaults to sending html and plain text parts for every message.
Every new account defaults to composing in HTML mail.
If you want to send just the HTML part and not HTML & plain text you can go to preferences / compose / Send Options and choose Send the message just in HTML. But I recommend sending both parts as that allows the recipient to choose whether he/she wants the html or the plain text. -
Inappropriate?Hi Scott. Thanks for the quick reply. To be more clear on the issue I was making. If you look at the sent message header, you will see that it is as follows:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
However, I was expecting the message to be sent as HTML when I selected the "Send the message in HTML anyways". So it should have following in header:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative
I think this would happen regardless of what is in the message, even if it is just a one word text message. Maybe I am confused by what this setting is supposed to do, but if so the description should probably be changed because the behavior does not follow the description currently. And if the behavior is as expected, I would love to submit an ER where my message is "always" sent as HTML (Rich) regardless of whether I format or not (which is what Outlook does).
Thanks...Randy -
Inappropriate?Hmm if I go to Options / Format / Rich Text Only from the compose window
and send a one word message
it's always coming back with
Content-Type: text/html -
Inappropriate?Yes, I am aware of that option. But I don't want to have to do this every time I compose a new message (I certainly won't remember to do this every time). There should be a default setting for this in Preferences.
Thanks...Randy -
Inappropriate?There is a default for this per my first comment:
If you want to send just the HTML part and not HTML & plain text you can go to preferences / compose / Send Options and choose Send the message just in HTML.
just choose HTML there and you never have to adjust it again :) -
Inappropriate?For some reason, that is not working for me. If I set this option in Preferences, should I see it reflected in the Options->Format menu when I create a new message? For me, this always shows Auto-Detect. I am wondering if my internal settings got messed up? For example, there was a thread to set the display font using a userChrome.css file. I don't seem to have that installed. Where should it be located? Maybe the install wasn't complete for me? If so, is there a way to redo this?
Thanks again...Randy -
Inappropriate?Hmm you are right Randy, I don't see that setting in the compose window being tied to a pref. Weird.
But I do see that if I default to html compose and change that send format setting to always send html instead of asking then my messages always go out as html. -
Inappropriate?I'm not sure I follow you about the last sentence. What steps are you taking? Are you able to click the New Message btn, type some text and hit Send with it going out as HTML?
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