[MlMt] Forced plain text sending

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Tue Mar 6 15:10:52 EST 2018


On 6 Mar 2018, at 5:20, Stijn Jonker wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I really dig MailMate; there is just one thing I can't figure out. 
> There is a nice HTML version of my email created. This is good for 
> most purposes. But sometimes you want to just go "old-skool" and only 
> send plain text emails. How in the manual you are directed to the 
> "Compose settings" but I really don't want to change the default.

Yes, you do, after a fashion...

> Above this email I'm writing now the "bar" it says "Plain text", but 
> as I see the preview window I'm sure an html version will be send 
> alongside. Is there a magic button and/or menu option I can select to 
> prevent the html version being generated?

In the 3rd section of the Preferences->Composer pane, there's a 
"Generate HTML even if only for styling" checkbox. Uncheck it.

Using the toolbar menu to select "Markdown" instead of "Plain text" and 
actually using some Markdown should still get you a HTML version.


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