Freron MailMate

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  benny February 18th, 2011 @ 04:02 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “accepted”

  I agree with the feature description.

  Option 2 and 3 probably needs a heuristic to determine when a plain text
  section essentially only contains a comment about no text part being
  available (typically with a link to a webpage).

  Option 3 is also the tricky one and will require some work, but I guess
  option 2 would handle most cases.

  There is an experimental mode. I don't think that it always works as
  expected when body parts are organized in certain ways, but you can try
  it if you like. Quit MailMate, go to Terminal and paste:

  defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmPreferPlainText -bool YES
  

  To disable it again:

  defaults remove com.freron.MailMate MmPreferPlainText
  

  You are welcome to add comments to this thread on the behavior of the
  above. Then it can be improved to become a GUI-worthy option.

  [state:accepted]

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  Erik M-H March 29th, 2011 @ 05:06 PM

  Benny, thanks for this workaround. I'm trying out MailMate and so far my only real complaint has been that it didn't prefer plain text.

  Spot-checking a half-dozen messages shows the hidden preference seems to work exactly as expected and hoped.

  Thanks to John for the pointer to View > Next Alternative, which now lets me view HTML-formatted messages in those occasional situations where it makes more sense.

  MailMate looks great, Benny -- I'm very impressed so far.

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  benny March 29th, 2011 @ 07:00 PM

  Thanks. I'm glad you like it.

  It is a hidden preference because it can fail to show the correct body
  part. I think an example is an email constructed as follows:

  multipart/related
      multipart/alternative
          text/plain
          text/html
      image/png
      image/png
  

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  benny May 25th, 2012 @ 02:14 PM

  • State changed from “accepted” to “fixreleased”

  This has been an option in the Viewer preferences pane for some time now.

  (Option 3 in the original request is not supported.)