Reading All messages in plain text format

Is it possible to read all incoming mail messages received through a traditional POP3 account in plain text format as opposed to HTML?
I am running my own POP3 server (hmailserver).
Sometimes we are sent messages in HTML format. When they come in on the iPhone, the font size is microscopic. If all messages were received as plain text, it would simplify things dramatically.

There is no such preference setting/option with the iPhone's mail client.
I've never been a fan of HTML formatting with email for a number of reasons, with this being one of them. When the sender uses HTML, the sender controls the formatting, and HTML is not rendered the same with each email client, and all email clients do not include a preference setting to change all formatting for received messages to plain text.

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I have been having to change my email messages to plain text alternative in order to read the font. Can I change the default somewhere?

I have been having to change my email messages to plain text alternative in order to read the font. Can I change the default somewhere?

Maybe I need to try a different route. I was able to change the font settings for the general mail. I am now thinking it is a problem with Safari or the internet browser. I am seeing the bubble font only on messages that contain pictures ~ When I click to view the full message in the browser, the font changes to a readable font.

View mail messages as plain text by default in Mail (7.0)

It appears as if Apple removed this very useful feature.
I prefer to look at e-mail in plain text. It gets rid of ridiculous formatting choices and inline images and most importantly, web bugs. So I've always set my mail clients to disable any kind of formatting and display the messages in plain text.
I can't do that in Mavericks Mail.app, at least as far as I can tell.
Bad choice, Apple.

Most mailers recognize plain text and html, and that's all they're expected to do. If you need a special feature like that you'll have to script it yourself.

KNOWN ISSUE: HTML Messages with plain-text signatures

To get around the EAS security policy issue, I'm having non-sensitive emails from work forwarded to a GMail account from a redirect set up in our corporate OWA. The redirect seems to send the messages to GMail without any issues; formatting is 100% intact, and in the GMail web client as well as Thunderbird, Entourage, etc., HTML emails with plain-text signature attachments show the plain-text message inline with the rest of the formatted message. All of our internal mailing lists have these plain text attachments that say where the message was coming from (Message sent from [email protected] by listserv). These get affixed to every message, both plain text and HTML.
Here's my problem: The Pre's email client handles both plain text and HTML messages beautifully. But, when I receive a message from a mailing list with a plain text attachment, the HTML portion disappears, and all I see is the signature.
Is there any way to make the Pre show the HTML INSTEAD of the plain text? I can live without the sig, I know where the messages are coming from already. But if I can't read the message, it's useless. I've only begun researching this and so far Google hasn't been much help, nor has searching these or other forums. Any help would be appreciated.
Palm Pre P100EWW
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)
Message Edited by HowellBP on 06-16-2009 04:13 PM

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I just got off the phone with Palm Support. Apparently this is a bug in the mail application. It currently does not support parsing both HTML and plain text in the same message. It will read EITHER plain text OR HTML, but not both at the same time. This will be fixed in a future update.

DECODING MAIL FROM WEB SERVER IN PLAIN TEXT FORMAT(THE MAIL BEING SENT BY LABVIEW APPLICATION)

Hi All
I have a labview application that send mail every hour automatically.
But actually the mail has to be decoded from the web server(by another application).But now when that application decode the data in the mail(that is send by labview application)its getting some funny characters inside that can not be detected by the decoding application
(When open the mail no problem.)But actually our goal is to decode the mail from the web server.
Why the extra characters are appearing when decoding from the server?Is it because of the HTML format?
Is there option to send the mail in plain text format(not like attachment)?
In outlook we can change the setting (tools->options->send->mail sending format->....here we can set as HTML format/Plain Text format)
Like that at the sending time can i chenge the sending option as plain text format in my labview application?
Thanks...

smercurio_fc wrote:
Then it sounds to me like this other application is not decoding the attachment correctly, especially if you looked at the attachment yourself after you received it and verified it's correct.
No, no, smercurio. This is charcter encoding here. In older versions of LabVIEW you could specify what character encoding to use when sending an email through the SMTP VIs. But that gave problems since people in certain locales used certain characters that where not transfered right when the wrong encoding was specified, and that encoding stuff is not understood by most people at all, so the wrong selected encoding was rather the rule than the exception. In newer versions of LabVIEW do the SMTP VIs handle the encoding automatically based on the currently used locale on the system.
This change is documented in the Upgrade Notes of LabVIEW and probably happened around LabVIEW 7.1 or 8.0.
A decent mail client will recognize the encoding and convert it back to whatever is necessary before presenting it to the user. The OPs posters server application obviously isn't a smart mail client but probably just some crude text file parser that has no notion of proper mail character encoding and how to deal with it.
I would suppose that there is a chance to dig into the SMTP VIs itself and try to manipulate or disable that encoding altogether in there but that may open a whole can of worms somewhere else. The proper way would be to process the incoming mail by a character encoding aware mail client before passing it to the text parser. On Unix setting up something like this would be fairly trivial.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Message Edited by rolfk on 01-23-2008 10:21 AM
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CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

How to view my email in HTML format instead of Plain Text format?

I receive plenty of HTML format emails everyday.
but when I check those emails on iPhone, all emails were automatically converted to Plain Text format.
I wish to view my emails in HTML format (just as it shown in Outlook)
with graphic (jpep loaded, instead of attachment), and Text formatting.
Can anyone suggest me any solution?
or do Mail apps in iPhone does not support HTML format?
Pls guide.
Thx.

To get a source code for jsp mail visit http://www.jspinsider.com/tutorials/jsp/javamail.view

Unable to update plugins because the "Plug-in Status" page returns in plain-text format

From within the Add-ons Manager, I clicked on "Check to see if your plugins are up to date". When the status results page displayed, it was in plain-text format, like this:
Potentially vulnerable plugins
Plugin Status Action
Outdated Plugins
Plugin Status Action
Unknown Plugins
Plugin Status Action
These plugins are up to date
Plugin Status Action
There's nothing to click on to update a plugin. I'm experiencing this plain-text formatting style anytime I open Add-ons Manager -- even when I search for new add-ons.

Go back to that page. Then, while holding down the shift key, reload the
page. You can also try these; 
Clear the Cache '''''Firefox/Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"''''' 
and 
Remove Cookies '''''Firefox/Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"''''' 
If there is still a problem,
'''''[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode Start Firefox in Safe Mode]'''''
 While you are in safe mode; 
'''''Firefox Options > Advanced > General'''''. 
Look for and turn off '''Use Hardware Acceleration'''.

How can I export a mailbox of messages as plain text?

I have a mailbox filled with correspondence from a colleague. About 150 messages in all, some with attachments. I'd like to print out all the messages in that folder but not one at a time. I was hoping to be able to save them all as plain text and convert them to a PDF for two-sided printing. Examining individual messages in Text Wrangler, I see that they are all XML-based messages and, so, filled with XML codes. Is there any simple way to convert or export these without manipulating each individual message?
Yes, I could print each message individually, but that's going to take a long time and waste a lot of paper.
robert

Select the messages. Choose File > Save As…. You'll get a pop-up menu to select Rich Text, Plain Text, or Raw Source.
If you choose rich text or plain text, the messages will appear in TextEdit as if they run together. Select Format > Wrap to Page, and you will see each message starts a new page.

Reading Word attachments (with Rich Text Format) in Mail

I have difficulty opening "Word email attachments" that contain "Rich Text Format" using my ipod touch under the MAIL function. For normal Word documents, I have no issue at all. Can anyone help here? Thank you.

RTF contains alot of extra formatting junk that you need to be aware of, depends what you want to do with the files afte reading them in but JAVA has its own RTF parser standard. Be warned its not full proof.....
import java.io.*;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.Document;
try {
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Need to generate check writing output in plain text format in 12.1.3.

In 11.5.10.2 a plain text file output can be created which is then used with a third-party software from Secure32 to create AP checks. Now in 12.1.3 I cannot get this same plain text output for check writing. The XML output contains flags which cannot be used with older version of Secure32 (upgrading Secure32 is not an option)
Go-live is 30 days away and AP check cannot print. Because of time constraints theire is no time to set up and use the embedded R12 check writing features.
Any help of tips would be appreciated - thanks.
Edited by: user702225 on Dec 20, 2011 9:24 AM

In 11.5.10.2 a plain text file output can be created which is then used with a third-party software from Secure32 to create AP checks. Now in 12.1.3 I cannot get this same plain text output for check writing. The XML output contains flags which cannot be used with older version of Secure32 (upgrading Secure32 is not an option)
Go-live is 30 days away and AP check cannot print. Because of time constraints theire is no time to set up and use the embedded R12 check writing features.
Any help of tips would be appreciated - thanks.
Edited by: user702225 on Dec 20, 2011 9:24 AM

IDocs in plain text format?

Hi all,
Does anyone have the IDocs for ORDERS (ORDERS05), ORDRSP (ORDERS05) and DESADV (DELVRY03)? Could you email them to me at [email protected]
Thanks,
Charles.

Hi Charles Brown,
use transaction WE60 -IDoc documentation. You will get all information there. If you don't have access to system: What do you need exactly (as you mentioned IDoc basic type ORDERS05 twice). ORDERS and DESADV are just the message types that may be connected to any IDoc basic type.
Regards,
Clemens

IPhoto sends emails in Rich format even if the default format is Plain Text

Detailed Summary (wouldn't fit in the Topic Subject):
iPhoto will always send emails in Rich Text format even if Mail application is set to send all emails in Plain Text format. In other words, emails initiated from iPhoto ignore the selected Message Format setting in the Mail application.
Description:
It is a better practice to email photos in the Plain Text format instead of Rich Text format so recipients using different email clients can easily download attached pictures as regular attached files.
The workaround is to change the email format to Plain Text before sending it. This wouldn't be such a problem if you could make this a permanent setting however this is not possible. The Mail application has a specific setting for this but iPhoto simply ignores it. This is the issue I am raising here.
How to reproduce the problem:
1. Open the Mail application (Assuming you already have an email account configured)
2. Go to Preferences, Composing tab
3. Change Message Format to "Plain Text"
4. Optional step to verify that the Plain Text is now the default format: Start a new email. Click on menu Format and you'll see "Make Rich Text" available, which means the current email is in fact in Text Format. Close this email.
5. Open iPhoto
6. Select one or more photos and click on the "Email" icon on the lower right hand side
7. A details popup will open, click on "Compose Message"
8. The Mail application will open as well as a New Email window with the Subject field filled out and the selected photos in the email body
9. Click on the menu Format
Expected: Th last option should be "Make Rich Text" indicating that the current email is in Plain Text format as determined by the Mail settings (steps 1-5 above)
Actual: Last option is "Make Plain Text" which means the current email is fact in the Rich Text format which does not match the Mail application settings.
Can we at least get an acknowledgement from Apple that this is a known issue? Also, is there a fix for this? It is not an acceptable solution to tell users to manually select Plain Text for every email. I am tired of asking people to resend emails that way. That is a workaround, not a solution.
Test details:
- Mail Version 4.4 (1082)
- iPhoto Version 8.1.2 (424)
- OSX Version 10.6.5

iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback to report a bug.
Can we at least get an acknowledgement from Apple that this is a known issue?
Need to ask Apple that one.
Regards
TD

All attachments opening as plain text

Apparently without any changing of settings the mail program is opening all attachments as plain text. This occurs although the program is available to open the attachment. I know the attachments can be saved to the desktop and then opened, but this causes clutter and many attachments are not worthy of saving. Any suggestions on restoring the mail program to seeking the proper application to match the attachment. I have tried searching all the menus and cannot get View>message>best alternative to be highlighted and selectable. Thank you for any suggestions.

''re: not displaying any incoming messages with html.''
Do you have this setting ?
'View' > 'Message Body as ' > 'Original HTML'
BTW - you may prefer to see all the toolbars. They can be enabled - see image below.

BIP report in plain text/fixed format.

Hi,
Is there an option for a BIP report to go out in plain text/fixed format. I dont see that option in the drop down where we select the format and view/send/schedule reports. Is this plain text/fixed format available in BIP at all? Also if I need to send/schedule a report with report name+date...can BIP do that? Please adivce. Thanks.

There is no plain text format.
Fixed format means you can select the format you need from the Limited Output Format.If You select only PDF for example the user able to see only the PDF output.
While You schedule the Report under the Report parameter tab
you will get the Template and the Format option .There u can select the Format you want to send.
Thanks

Plain Text Message from Outlook being converted to RTF thru Gateway

Hi,
I have the GW Gateway running in a Proof of Concept environment.
When GroupWise users send Plain Text format messages thru to Exchange,
the message is delivered in Rich Text Format.
HTML format is honoured through the gateway - i.e. HTML format messages
from GroupWise are delivered in HTML format.
Is there any way - switches, etc - that we can stop the conversion to
RTF thru the gateway? My users noticed this during testing when then
discovered they can edit the RTF message body in Outlook.
Thanks for your help
Phil
Phil Tuttiett, Palmerston North, New Zealand

There might be a resolve bug that would effect this positively for you.
Bug 403443 - Exchange Gateway conversion issue with RTF from Word. and Tid 7001088
if your code is older then 7-14-08 then it might be worth trying some later code to see if this bug fix helps you.
There is a Testing build that you can try. There are also several people using this testing code so I am not concerned if you try it and use it.
The most current version of the gateway can be downloaded at ftp.novell.com/outgoing/groupwise_exch_7.0.1_2008.07.22_us.zip
good luck!
>>> Phil Tuttiett<[email protected]> 2008-06-04 6:16 AM >>>
Hi,
I have the GW Gateway running in a Proof of Concept environment.
When GroupWise users send Plain Text format messages thru to Exchange,
the message is delivered in Rich Text Format.
HTML format is honoured through the gateway - i.e. HTML format messages
from GroupWise are delivered in HTML format.
Is there any way - switches, etc - that we can stop the conversion to
RTF thru the gateway? My users noticed this during testing when then
discovered they can edit the RTF message body in Outlook.
Thanks for your help
Phil
Phil Tuttiett, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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