Apple Mail: how can I tell if a previously sent msg was html or plain text?

[brianleahy]

I recently sent a message to a website, and only after I had sent it I saw a warning on the site that HTML-formatted emails would not be read (for 'security reasons').

Now I'm looking at the message in my Sent folder (in Apple Mail) and trying to determine whether it was sent HTML formatted. I didn't do any fancy formatting, no different colors, fonts, bold, italics etc. -- but I see no definitive way to find out if it was sent plain text. Anyone have a thought?

 

[Randman]

In Mail, go to Preferences, then Composing and check if it's Rich Text or Plain Text. I believe the default is Rich.

 

[brianleahy]

Ah! Thanks.

But wait - "Rich" Text? Does it actually use .rtf format?

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Ooh, that's a good question -- is a non-plain text e-mail created by Mail.app in RTF or HTML format?!

 

[Pengu]

I think it would have to be HTML as any other email client using "rich" text uses HTML.

 

[brianleahy]

If that's so, I wonder why they call it "rich text". For me anyway, the phrase is definitely NOT a generic way to describe simply text that can be formatted, I always think of rtf when I hear the phrase "rich text".