{"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":"<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":[],"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"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}]}}