WriteNow to RTF on Tiger

My dad has purchased leopard but before we install it (since we will lose OS 9 capabilities) we would like to convert his old WriteNow files to RTF. Obviously we can do this manually but this would take a long time. Is there a good way to do this with AppleScript? I am not very learned with AppleScript, I can use automator to get all the files, but then I need to run a script for "Save As..." that automatically saves as RTF in the same location with preferably a similar name (but not replacing the file) is there an easy way to do this? Thanks!

At this point I'm not clear if it's the key generation, or it's the paths in the conf that are not allowing it to be used. At the moment, this is what I get when I verify the cert:
*error 18 at 0 depth lookup:self signed certificate*
I found this link which is helping me understand all this:
*http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#cert-self*
So I end up starting over with the same results. Am I mad to think this can be done? I've not seen otherwise, other than I've seen people talk about self-signed certs.
Muchly appreciated!

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PDF & JPEG attachments no longer work in Tiger

I just upgraded to Tiger yesterday and now my trusty Mail application is totally useless. I send proofing PDFs and JPEGs to my clients all day long and now anything I attach is a crapshoot. Everytime I attach a JPEG, I get a garishly coloured preview in the email body which sometimes I can fix by fiddling with that new image size window in the lower right of the window frame, but my clients still get an email with the image embedded in it that they usually can only save as a bmp. Mail was working perfectly under Panther. Why the blazes did they mess it up? The most annoying thing is that there used to be a preference setting that would allow you to turn off seeing images in your emails. This is seriously affecting my business and I won't upgrade any of my other Macs until this is resolved. Has anyone else found a workaround for this?

The most annoying thing is that there used to be a preference setting
that would allow you to turn off seeing images in your emails.
I've been using the Mail.app exclusively since Jaguar was introduced, thru Panther and now Tiger and there has never been such a preference setting with any Mail.app version for displaying inline or viewed in place attachments. There is a preference setting to display remote images in HTML messages which is not the same thing.
The Mail.app displays image/photo attachments and 1 page PDF attachments inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default which cannot be turned off but this is not the same as being embedded.
You can control-click on such an attachment and choose View as Icon but regardless - depending on the recipient's email client and available preference settings, such an attachment may appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message when the message is opened (as with the Mail.app when receiving such an attachment) or as an attached file only which must be opened separately to be viewed for which the sender has no control over.
The same is true in reverse. Windows Outlook and OE shows all message attachments as attached files only but when receiving an image/photo attachment with the Mail.app, it will appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message.
Using Send Windows Friendly Attachments has no control over or effect on this and should be used regardless when sending attachments to a Windows recipient. This feature removes the Apple resource fork for an attached file only which is invisible to fellow Mac users.
Although the Mail.app does not include an HTML composer/editor, RTF with Tiger Mail is really HTML. The recipients who are reporting this problem are Windows Outlook users and Outlook has a problem with Mail's RTF and image/photo attachments.
Use Send Windows Friendly Attachments, Plain Text for message composition instead of RTF and no need to select View as Icon which has no effect on the recipient's email client.

Gif animations in Mail

I've read some threads about this problem, and while there is lively debate, there doesn't seem to be an answer. So I thought I would try it again with a new question.
A friend of mine (he has an old IMac) forwarded me an email with an animated gif. It was funny, and I wanted to forward it on. But I have never been able to do this. If I try to save the file, it saves as a MIME attachment, and I can't even open it. If I Download the file, the Get Info says it is a gif file, but if I open it in Preview, or attach it to a new email, it no longer animates and is just a still picture.
I tried forwarding the original email with the animated gif back to myself, and when it arrives, it no longer animates. My friend is no help. He's not really in to computing. He told me he just gets them from somebody else, and forwards it to me.
So why can I see the animated gif in my Mail, but can't save it, download it, cut & paste it, or forward it? I tried the Append Message suggestion from an old post, and that did not work either.
I noticed in some of the old posts some people seem to really hate gif's. I don't really care one way or the other. I just want to understand why my computer can receive them, but can't do anything else with them.

Although Jaguar and Panther Mail renders HTML received, they do not support composing HTML which also includes when forwarding a message received that was composed in HTML including animated gifs.
Although you cannot compose complex HTML within the body of a message with Tiger Mail, RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML and supports forwarding a message received that was composed in HTML including animated gifs.
Reason for this: if you automatically render all HTML received (with any email client with OS X) and a spammer uses HTML for message composition and includes embedded images or objects that must be rendered from a remote server, if the Mail.app Junk Mail filter does not automatically mark the message as junk and you open the message, this can reveal that your email address is valid to the spammer causing more spam to be received.
Copied from Why HTML in E-Mail is a Bad Idea:
"Because it introduces accessibility problems. When you write in plain text, the receiving mail client renders the text in whatever font the reader chooses. When you format email with HTML, the sender controls the formatting. But this is a trap: You only think your message will render the same way to the viewer as it appears to the sender. In reality, the receiver can end up squinting because the font looks so tiny, or vice versa. HTML is not rendered the same way from one viewing client to the next - all guarantee of accessiblity goes out the window. This is especially problematic for visually impaired persons."
Because it can introduce security issues and trojan horses -- it's a gateway to danger as any Outlook user can tell you. HTML can include any number of scripts, dangerous links, controls, etc.
Powerbook G4 17" Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Different rich text/plain text settings for different accounts?

I use Mail for both my work email (MS Exchange) and my personal email (webmail/IMAP). Many of my coworkers use Outlook's rich text formatting options, so I need to have my work emails go out as rich text. However I'd like to have my personal emails go out as plain text.
I can set Mail to create new messages in plain text, but to reply in the same format of the original message. That takes care of everything EXCEPT when I compose a new message using my work address... in that case it goes out as plain text, and my coworkers complain that they can't use formatting, because their copies of Outlook are in turn configured to reply in the same format as the original message.
So ideally what I'd like is to have two different formatting settings for my two different accounts. Anyone know how this might be done? Any plugins, etc., that might accomplish this?

Since you are running Jaguar, Jaguar and Panther Mail do not support composing in HTML and this includes when forwarding a message received that was composed in HTML.
Since Jaguar and Panther Mail do not support composing or forwarding HTML, you can't embed images or photos in the message body anyway.
RTF with Tiger Mail is really HTML and although Tiger Mail does not include an HTML composer/editor, you can copy/paste HTML format from a web page and forward HTML received.
Images/photos and single page PDF attachments are revealed as inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default which cannot be turned off. This applies to received and sent messages which is not the same as being embedded. Embedded requires HTML and an embedded attachment is not a true attachment. All Mail.app versions render HTML received but you cannot attach a photo or image as embedded with Jaguar or Panther Mail so it doesn't matter if you use RTF or Plain Text in regards to photo/image or single page PDF attachments which appear as inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default regardless.
When you use Plain Text for message composition, the receiving mail client renders the text in whatever font the reader chooses.
IMO, everyone should use Plain Text for message composition. Messages would be boring to some but the majority if not all problems experienced with email would be eliminated if HTML was banned from message composition.

Gif's in mac mail

I recently received an email that contained an animated GIF file that I thought was pretty cool and would like to share. However, whether I forward the email or save the gif to desktop and attach it to a new email, it doesn't work. I believe it has something to do with HTML mail, but playing around with my preferences, I'm only offered the options of sending plain text or rich text (neither of which make this work). I'd be grateful for some direction. Thanks.

RTF with Tiger Mail is really HTML but certain things must occur with a message in order for HTML to be implemented such as forwarding a received message that was composed with HTML, copying/pasting HTML formatting from a document or website in a new message, selecting a font and font size and/or text color, using formatting such as bold, underline or italics for selected text with a new message, etc.
Since this received message was composed with HTML that included an animated gif, forwarding the message should work keeping the animated gif active.
How do you know the animated gif did not work when the recipient opened the received message?

How NOT to Embed Fonts in a Signature?

I've seen the various threads relating to problems with fonts in Mail and unexpected results when received by someone with different settings or on a different operating system. This is exacerbated by the fact that our office standard signatures have some bold and smaller size text (for a disclaimer). Thus, messages will show up for some people with a different font in the body of the message than in the signature, unless their default vieweing font just happens to be the same as the font in the sig. For example, if my signature is set as Arial, and my "message font" set in Mail's preferences is also Arial, my message will look fine. However, if I send it to someone who sets their "message font" to Times, then the body of my message will show up as Times whereas the signature will still be Arial. This is true if the receiver is another Apple Mail user or a Windows Outlook user. Either way, the results look sloppy, to say the least.
All the discussions revolve around how to force your font choice to show up on the other end. I explored that as a possibility, but I find the workaround (setting your "message font" as something different than what you want to send, and manually changing the font of EACH AND EVERY MESSAGE YOU WANT TO SEND before sending it) completely unacceptable, especially in a professional office environment. I looked into doing something with the signature, so that you essentially start typing your message in the body of the signature itself, thus inheriting its properties, but this doesn't work reliably since Mail puts its cursor before the sig, and certain text like "in a message dated...so-and-so said" will still default to no font.
So if forcing a particular font to be embedded isn't the answer, how about making sure no font is embedded? Sounds like a plan, right? Well, that seems to be just as difficult because of the signature. I can't check the "always match my default font" box, because then it strips out the bold text and makes the disclaimer the same size. On the other hand, it seems to always embed whatever font is assigned to the sig, rather than just size and bold properties. The machines in our office that still run Panther (which is most of them, unfortunately), do actually send their signatures with no font embedded, but still have size changes and bold. I can't seem to find a way to do this in Tiger or Leopard. I understand the reason is that Panther sends actual RTF, but Tiger and Leopard send HTML. I tried some of the tricks to edit the signatures manually with an HTML editor and re-saving a web archive out of Safari, but I've had trouble getting this to work properly. Even so, this again isn't a viable solution for the whole office once we upgrade to Leopard, which will be happening in the next few months.
So is there ANY way to make the signature and message body default to the same font, without having to resort to plain text messages?

Did you come up with a solution to this problem?!

Emails with Phantom Characters (again) when viewed by Windows Users

Seems about every six months the problems of random characters showing up my emails from my Apple to Windows users. Usually this as been "B's" but lately "A's" with carrot signs over them.
I have noticed that this comes from all my Apple computers so it not just one of my computers.
I have put this "fix" in:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070808165831835
But it does not seem to fix the problems. BTW--the random characters seem to pop up where space bar.
Any clue what to do next--the window users are getting ****** at my emails.
Message was edited by: James Coley

You do know RTF with Tiger Mail is not sent as HTML with a newly composed message unless certain things occur.
Selecting a different font, font size or color from the font panel when composing the message - (using the default message font only via Mail preferences without making any other changes sends the message as Plain Text).
Copy/Paste HTML formatted text from another source - website or another message that as composed in HTML.
Using a Signature that was composed in HTML or uses a different font from the default message font or includes an image.
Changing text format - bold, italics or underline for selected text.
This link may be helpful but other than this and until MS decides to fix the related bugs - which they likely aren't very motivated to do in regards to Apple's Mail application.
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html

How NOT to embed attachments?

I am trying to ATTACH a pdf file to an outgoing email, but no matter what I do it appears inline instead of being a clickable attached file. What's the secret to NOT embedding your attachments within email? I can't find anything under Preferences.
TIA.

Does the recipient indicate the PDF is not received as an attached file (embedded) which cannot be saved outside of the message?
The Mail.app displays all photo/image and 1 page PDFs inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default which cannot be turned off.
An inline or viewed in place attachment is not the same thing as being embedded.
You can control-click on an inline or viewed in place attachment and select View as Icon but regardless, depending on the recipient's email client such attachments may appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message when the message is opened (as with the Mail.app when receiving such attachments) or as attached files only which must be opened separately to be viewed for which the sender has no control over.
The same in reverse. When attaching photo/image or 1 page PDF files to a message with Windows Outlook or Outlook Express, they are shown as attached files only when sending but when received by the Mail.app, such attachments appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default when the message is opened for which the sender has no control over unless they compress or zip the attachment or attachments.
RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML and with Windows Outlook (depending on the version used by the recipient), sometimes an inline or viewed in place attachment sent with Tiger Mail using RTF for message composition (along with a signature and/or depending on if the attachment is inserted after all message text or within message text) will be received as embedded but this has more to do with a problem with Outlook since the same doesn't occur with all email clients.
If any of your recipients are reporting such attachments are truly embedded when received, using Plain Text for message composition will resolve it.
There is a plug-in for the Mail.app called Mail Attachments Iconizer but the previous info provided still applies.
http://lokisw.com/index.php?item=MailAttachmentsIconizer

Mail converts jpg/gif images to tiff

I have a friend who has an ibook running panther. When she tries to forward an email message that contains jpg or gif attachments, Mail converts them to tiff, which causes problems for her windows bound friends, and also increases the message size by a factor of 10. Animated gif attachments converted to tif are useless.
Is there any way for her to stop Mail from converting these attachments to tif? Thanks.

Is there any way for her to stop Mail from converting these attachments to tif?
Not with Jaguar or Panther Mail.
This is caused by the sender using HTML for message composition and a jpg or gif being embedded in the message body which are not true attachments.
Jaguar and Panther Mail render HTML received but do not support composing in HTML which includes when forwarding a message received that was composed in HTML. Jaguar/Panther Mail supports RTF and Plain Text only so when forwarding a message received that was composed in HTML with embedded images, the Mail.app converts the embedded images to attachments and uses RTF.
Although Tiger Mail does not support complex HTML composition within the body of a message, RTF in Tiger Mail is HTML. Tiger Mail also supports forwarding a received message that was composed in HTML. With Safari under Tiger, you can select Mail Contents of This Page which will copy the selected web page and paste the contents in a new mail message and the contents of the copied web page will be sent in it's entirety.

How to send an HTML email?

Hey guys
For the longest time I've been wanting to send HTML emails with Mail, not for promotional stuff, but more for thanking our clients for their business. This is the perfect holiday season to send a Thank You email to them, but I don't want just to send a plain and boring text email, I want graphics on it. I know this wasn't possible to do with any previous OSX until Tiger. This is what the Mail page says... - HTML Message Composition - Mail uses the Safari engine to format newly composed email using HTML. I read another post about an HTML Script to work with mail but it got so confusing that I wasn't able to make it work. Can anybody tell how to make this work? A step-by-step tutorial would be great, not just for me but for all those Mail users that are trying to do the same thing. If Apple can send those HTML emails and Newsletters, why can't we? I don't think they're using a Windows computer or any other email software to do this. Better not! :P
This is the post I read, but it was posted a year ago, so I know there's got to be something more up to date.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=667497&ft=y&#667497
Thanks a lot in advance!

Hello Luis.
Although RTF with Tiger Mail is basic HTML, you can't compose complex HTML within the body of a message.
You can use an HTML composer of choice to include embedded images/graphics and/or objects that are stored on a server (to be downloaded/rendered from the server) when the message is opened by recipients instead of attaching images/graphics to the message.
After saving the document, you can open the document with Safari to ensure the layout and settings are correct and at the menu bar, choose Edit > Mail Contents of This Page.
A new Mail.app message will open and the contents of the webpage will be copied to the message and it will be sent in its entirety.

Making sure attached images and signatures appear in the body of sent email

The subject line says it all. I would like recipients of my mail to see the attachment/image or signature, within the body of the email where I have placed it.....or not if I so choose. Is this possible to control from the sender's end?....or is this also influenced by the receiver's mail settings and platform?
I know there are many posts that dance around this issue, but I have not found one that nails it. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
PowerBook 17" & G4 Quicksilver desktop Mac OS X (10.3.9) Mail 1.3.11

The Mail.app displays all image/photo and single page PDF documents inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default. Depending on the recipient's email client and available preference settings, such attachments may appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default when the message is opened (as with the Mail.app) or as attached files only for which the sender has no control over.
If the recipient's email client is not the Mail.app but displays image/photo attachments inline or viewed in place, the attachments may not appear exactly where you placed them.
The only way to do what you want or get as close as possible is by using HTML formatting with embedded images and/or objects and no Mail.app version includes an HTML composer/editor.
RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML which allows for forwarding a message received that was composed in HTML keeping all intact. With Tiger, you can use the HTML editor/composer of choice with embedded images/objects, etc. and save the completed document.
Open the saved HTML document with Safari and at the Safari menu bar, go to File and select Mail Contents of This Page. A new Mail.app message will be launched and the HTML document viewed with Safari will be copied to the message which will be sent in its entirety.
You cannot do this with Jaguar or Panther Mail.

How to control fonts in Mail?

I have a persistent problem that I just cannot figure out. In mail prefs I set my font for the Mail message font to be Verdana 13 which is easier for me to read. Nonetheless, any time I click on the next line to type in, or click anywhere in the message, it ALWAYS outputs Verdana 12 and I have to manually change it. It looks like it is a bug but I am suspicious about coming to that conclusion as I may just be ignorant.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Richard

Regarding Mail, as already provided go to Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors.
You can change the Mailbox Font, Message List Font and Message Font.
The font and size that you select for the Message Font will be the font and size for received messages only when the sender of a message uses Plain Text for message composition. When a sender uses HTML for message composition, the sender controls the formatting. With such a received message open, at the menu bar go to View > Message and select Plain Text Alternative and the received message font will be changed to your chosen font for messages.
The message font selection will also be the font used when composing a message. RTF with Tiger Mail is really HTML but in order to implement HTML for message composition requires selecting a font via the font panel when composing a message or change the font size, color or add bold or italics for selected text, etc.
I don't believe you can change the font for Address Book. You can only change the font size choosing between Regular, Large or Extra Large.
The same for iTunes. You can select between Small or Large for Source Text and Song text.

Mail Signature shows up as attachment in Leopard

In email my signature file (a PNG, GIF or JPG--tried them all) shows up as an attachment that must be clicked on to be viewed by those receiving my email using Outlook. Worked fine in Mac OS X10.4. How can I remedy this?

Hello SYL.
Jaguar and Panther Mail does not support HTML composition so you cannot embed a jpeg in the body of a message or with your signature.
Although the logo appears inline or viewed in place within the body of the message before being sent, depending on the recipient's email client and available preference settings, the logo may appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message when the message is opened or as an attached file which must be opened separately (as with any other attached image or jpeg file) for which we have no control over.
If the recipient is a Mail.app user, the logo included with your signature will appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message when the message is opened.
RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML but you cannot compose complex HTML within the body of a message. Such a logo included with your signature will probably work as intended for all recipients when using Tiger Mail but I'm not sure.

Sending pics in Apple mail to PCs

Hi,
I'm having trouble sending pics in Apple Mail that show up in the body of the text and not just as an attachment. People who get my emails with Apple Mail seem to see the pic in the body, but other users, especially PC users only see the pic as an attachement. How do I solve this problem? If it's unsolvable in Apple Mail, what other applications would allow me to do this? (I've tried Entourage, and in HTML mode I can send pics in the body fine, but I can't send hyperlinks!) I'm tearing my hair out here
Danny

Hello Danny.
As others have provided, the Mail.app shows all image/photo and smaller PDF attachments (1-2 pages) inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default which cannot be turned off.
Jaguar/Panther Mail does not support HTML composition so you cannot embed an image or photo within the body of a message.
You can control-click on an inline or viewed in place attachment and select View as Icon but regardless, all Mail.app attachments are sent as true attachments to the message.
When sending attachments to Windows users, you should also select Sent Windows Friendly Attachments.
Depending on the recipient's email client and available preference settings, image/photo attachments may appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default when the recipient opens the message (as with the Mail.app) or as attached files which must be opened separately for which the sender of the message has no control over.
You can send links such as http://www.apple.com/ which must include the http:// portion but you cannot send a hyperlink with Jaguar or Panther Mail. An included link does not become active until after sending the message. After sending a message with a link, you can check the copy of the sent message to confirm the link appears active.
RTF with Tiger Mail is simple HTML but you cannot compose complex HTML within the body of the message. Tiger Mail does support turning selected/highlighted text or a word into a hyperlink.

Changing how attachments are attached to outgoing email?

Hello everyone, my apologies in advance if this has already been answered somewhere, but I've been scouring the discussion forums for nearly an hour and don't really have more time to keep going.
I'm new to Mac, 6 days now. I'm having a bit of a problem: when I create a new email message and want to attach a file to it, the file is being 'previewed' in my email. Maybe not a big deal for some, but one thing I often need to attach is a massive PDF, not in file size but in pixels, 20,000-30,000 in width. Because Mail is trying to preview the attachment in the message, it is taking literally four minutes to do so, during which time I can't do anything else at the computer.
If I zip the PDF file, then attach the zip file, it shows as a file icon, but that isn't a very good solution - it would mean I need to zip every file I want to send that is previewable, meaning extra steps and more disk space usage.
Is there a way to attach these files without having to zip them, whereby the file will display on my end as an icon rather than as the actual file? I hope this makes sense. It's driving me crazy. My Mac experience so far has been excellent, but this is bordering on a showstopper for me.
I've read a ton of threads about email format, etc, and it doesn't matter if I do my emails as Plain or Rich Text, if I'm creating one from scratch or replying, who the recepient is, etc, it is always previewing the PDF. There's got to be a setting somewhere which will allow me to stop seeing the file contents in my email message.
Thanks to anyone who can help with this issue .
MacBook 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Thanks for the clarification.
You used the term right click on it to download instead of right click on it to save the attached file outside of the message which are very different things.
RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML or I should say can be HTML but certain things must occur in order for HTML to be implemented with a sent message.
Regardless the message font and size chosen at Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors, you must select a font and size via the font panel when composing a message or use bold, italics, underline for selected text or changing text color, etc. If you are using a signature that was composed with RTF or HML with a different font, size and/or color than is used in the message body or contains an image or logo, etc. Forwarding a message that was composed in HTML and the same when replying to a received message that was composed in HTML if you have "Use the same message format as the original message" selected for composing preferences at Mail > Preferences > Composing.
Any or all or a combination of any of these will send a message as HTML.
Depending on the Outlook and Windows version used by a recipient, Outlook has had some problems with Mail's RTF. There is no email client that is completely bug free and Outlook has plenty of bugs for such an old/mature email client and MS also makes the arrogant assumption that the majority of people that exchange email are using Outlook or OE and should be if not.
So long story short, using Plain Text for message composition can and does make a difference.

WriteNow to RTF on Tiger

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