In their infinite wisdom, my workplace has decided to force us all onto
Exchange. This means, among other things, that I'll have to use
Entourage instead of Thunderbird as my primary email client. I only
recently stopped using Pine, mostly because I don't want all of the
HTML crap and inline attachments featured in most mail clients.
Entourage Help tells me that I can't turn off the HTML for incoming
mail. Are there any hacks available that would allow me to do this, or
am I stuck?
You can set a Rule (POP and/or IMAP and/or Exchange, depending what sort of
mail accounts you have) at Tools/Rules/POP/IMAP/Exchange to run an
AppleScript automatically which will do this. First make and save the
following simple script in Script Editor (/Applications/AppleScript/) as a
Script, named "Strip HTML", saved to the Entourage Script Menu Items folder
in the Microsoft user Data folder in ~/Documents folder:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
if has HTML of theMsg then
set content of theMsg to (get content of theMsg)
end if
end tell
Then go to Tools/Rules and the appropriate POP/IMAP/Exchange tab(s). Make a
New rule with criterion "Is HTML message" and set the Action to Run
AppleScript. Click the Script button and browse to the Strip HTML script in
the correct folder where you saved it.
Now it will strip HTML and present the plain text version. (All modern email
applications send HTML email as "multipart/alternative" with both plain and
HTML parts. In the very rare event that someone sends you an HTML-only
version, you'd end up seeing all the HTML tags. This would have happened to
you in Pine also, so you'll know how rare this is. It might never happen.)
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <
http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
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