Freron MailMate

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  benny November 20th, 2018 @ 01:42 PM

  It is possible to change defaults using a custom theme, but it's tricky to make this work for HTML emails (which might be most of what you receive if you do not use the Prefer Plain Text setting). It is somewhat similar to the problems I have to deal with to make dark mode work for more than just plain text emails...

  I'll keep this request in mind when working on dark mode, but I'm not making any promises.

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  Mike Conley November 20th, 2018 @ 01:46 PM

  I always have Prefer Plain Text set and only rarely view HTML mail. I would be perfectly happy if I could just set the background colour of the Composer and Viewer window for plain text only, and let HTML do what it wants.

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  benny November 23rd, 2018 @ 09:11 AM

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  You can put this:

  body {  
     background-color: #EEEEEE;
  }
  

  into a file created here:

  ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Resources/MmMessagesWebView/stylesheet.css
  

  The composer text field is a bit trickier. You need to read up on this and then replace the display.plist file with something setting the background color to, for example, #EEEEEE. (Similar to the above, but you need a copy of the original .plist file.)

  None of this is guaranteed to work forever (hopefully it'll eventually be easier to customize).

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  Mike Conley November 23rd, 2018 @ 04:58 PM

  That works quite nicely for now. Cheers.

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  Terence Gillespie November 23rd, 2018 @ 08:01 PM

  Glad to see this solution here but it didn't work for me.

  1. Had to create the Resources folder and also the MmMessagesWebView folders as they did not exist yet.
     

  2. Contents of the stylesheet.css were as specified (with nothing before or after them):

     body {
     background-color: #EEEEEE; }

  3. Restarted MailMate several times but still no #EEEEEE for background preview.

  Has anyone else had similar experience?

  Thank you,

  Terence

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  benny December 11th, 2018 @ 01:28 PM

  @Terence: To make sure you got it right, try this:

  cat ~/Library/Application\ Support/MailMate/Resources/MmMessagesWebView/stylesheet.css
  

  Also, note that this only applies to plain text emails, that is, it's mainly useful for “Prefer Plain Text” users.