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Sending Plain Text E-mail Messages

Pegasus Mail 4.x

• Select "Tools" then click on "Options..."
• Click on "Sending Mail" tab
• In "Message Formatting, Formatting and use of styling in messages" section:
  • Disable all text styling options (never send styled mail) -- should be checked. This is the key item to set for sending plain text
  • Do not display the editor 'styles' toolbar -- unimportant to what's actually sent but if you check it you will not get the false sense that you are sending formatted mail as the visible formatting options will be removed from the editor screen.
  • Always paste plain text in preference to styled text -- Should be checked though it is implied if "Disable all text styling options" is set as noted above.
• In "Sending Mail, Rich Text (formatted) Message Handling" section:
  • Generate multipart/alternative versions of richtext messages -- should be unchecked.
  • For mail sent to local addresses, use MS-RTF formatting -- should be unchecked but does not affect Internet mail.
• In "Advanced settings" section:
  • Send enclosures instead of attachments -- normally checked, unrelated to plain text versus formatted message issues.
  • Make sure "Allow 8-bit MIME message is unchecked"
  • Don't add "attachment information" sections to Multipart messages -- should be checked
  • Suppress BCC field listings in outgoing mail -- not important to plain text issues but is normally checked for other reasons.
• Click on "OK"

Original material courtesy of Gerald E. Boyd.