STRANGE, NEW OS X MAIL behavior!
gmark
as "chunks", wherein the received mail text is surrounded by a box
with a "cancel" X in one corner. This box prevents me from editing
within it to put in reply text after the text I'm actually responding
to.
I can only put text before or after that "chunk".
Is this a result of some new feature, or a format I'm not aware of?
And what's the point of it? How do I get around it so I can edit
within that "chunk"?
TIA!
Mark
Chris Ridd
Can you upload a screenshot somewhere?
This sounds like you've partially downloaded the message or something.
Are you using IMAP or POP accounts? What is in the (IMAP) account
Advanced tab's "Keep copies of messages for offline viewing"?
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Chris
Sandy Foster
<5bb6da1d-8b5e-4286...@9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
gmark <gm...@svs.com> wrote:
The only way I've found is to copy the text from the original message,
paste it into the reply message (blank out everything, if it quoted when
you hit "reply"), making sure you're pasting as a quotation. Then you
can edit inside the original. If someone else has a better way, I'd love
to know about it! HTH.
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Sandy
sw.foster 1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net
AV3
I presume you are talking about "Mail" in OS 10.6. Since I am still
using OS 10.5, I am not sure I understand your question. What you
describe sounds like text in some non-text format, like html: when I see
that kind of text, I hit command-shift-t to convert it to rich-text
(what I most often use), then treat it normally. My signature has to be
reinstated in its normal rich-text format.
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isw
Sandy Foster <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
I think it's HTML. I *know* it's very annoying. Just convert it to plain
text.
Isaac
Matthew Lybanon
AV3 <arvi...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> gmark wrote:
> > In the past release, I've noticed that mail in OS X Mail is received
> > as "chunks", wherein the received mail text is surrounded by a box
> > with a "cancel" X in one corner. This box prevents me from editing
> > within it to put in reply text after the text I'm actually responding
> > to.
> > I can only put text before or after that "chunk".
> >
> > Is this a result of some new feature, or a format I'm not aware of?
> > And what's the point of it? How do I get around it so I can edit
> > within that "chunk"?
> >
>
>
> I presume you are talking about "Mail" in OS 10.6. Since I am still
> using OS 10.5, I am not sure I understand your question. What you
> describe sounds like text in some non-text format, like html: when I see
> that kind of text, I hit command-shift-t to convert it to rich-text
> (what I most often use), then treat it normally. My signature has to be
> reinstated in its normal rich-text format.
I'm using OS X 10.5*, and I've seen this behavior a few times. I'm not
sure why this happens sometimes, and I'm not sure how to edit it,
either. The method the above post describes seems like it might solve
the problem.
* Mail Version 3.6 (936) running under OS X Version 10.5.8.
