{"id":1445,"date":"2003-07-16T05:05:34","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/16\/plain-text-in-apples-mail-program\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:27:07","slug":"plain-text-in-apples-mail-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/16\/plain-text-in-apples-mail-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Plain text in Apple&#039;s Mail program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14161,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macosxhints.com\\\/article.php?story=20030711201917175&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090626000943\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macosxhints.com:80\\\/article.php?story=20030711201917175&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 18:02:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 18:02:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>For some reason, Apple doesn&#8217;t include a preference to default to plain text in Mail, the bundled e-mail application. The preference is there, though, just not in the interface.<\/p>\n<p>Quit Mail, then type this into the command line:<\/p>\n<p><code>defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE<\/code><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macosxhints.com\/article.php?story=20030711201917175\" title=\"Force Mail to display plain text by default\">MacOSXHints<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}