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Hello group,

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or
perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

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In article <5f019481$0$17350$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>, Krzysztof
Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> wrote:

Hello group,

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

html email and top posting simply requires being rude and inconsiderate
to others.

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

A: The lost context.
Q: What makes top-posted replies harder to read than bottom-posted?

A: Yes.
Q: Should I trim down the quoted part of an email to which I'm
replying?
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In message <050720201022399405%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article <5f019481$0$17350$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>, Krzysztof
Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> wrote:

Hello group,

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or
perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

html email and top posting simply requires being rude and inconsiderate
to others.

In some (many?) work places, top-posting is the norm or actually
required.

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On 2020-07-05 14:22:39 +0000, nospam said:

In article <5f019481$0$17350$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>, Krzysztof
Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> wrote:

Hello group,

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or
perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

html email and top posting simply requires being rude and inconsiderate
to others.

The only reason I'm asking is because I want to join a mailing list
where users keep the Usenet standard of composing messages. Otherwise I
would be perfectly comfortable with keeping the configuration I have
now (HTML, top posting), just as all my contacts do. The "plain text,
no top posting" rule in e-mail is long dead, and - in some companies -
can be against company policy.

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On 05-Jul-2020, Krzysztof Mitko wrote
(in article<5f019481$0$17350$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>):

Hello group,

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or
perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

AFAIK, HTML or Rich Text Format (RTF) is a global appearance feature of Apple Mail, not a property of an individual account. I remember it called "View as HTML" in older versions of Mail but it looks like it got renamed "plain text" or "rich text" on my Apple Mail v11.5 under on MacOS 10.13.6. I think Apple Mail is tied to specific releases of MacOS. I don't have access to 10.14 or 10.15 or 11.0beta to and verify this.

My workaround for this is to use a different mail reader for each account to get the different appearance and behavior. I have two gmail accounts, one for work and one for personal use. I use a different browser to login to each of them to get different settings and backgrounds, etc. You can't do this with Apple Mail, AFAIK.

Apple provides what they provide with a feature set that is decided by Apple product management. If it doesn't have a feature you want, you have very little recourse other than to use another mail reader. That looks like the case with your request unless they implemented it in later versions of Mail.

MacUpdate lists a bunch of mail readers, some free, some paid for. Do some research and use one for one account and another for the other account. I don't know if the Reply-in-line vs. Reply-append is a feature in any of them. I always reply-in-line to a plain text message.

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On 2020-07-05 15:27:24 +0000, Percival John Hackworth said:

On 05-Jul-2020, Krzysztof Mitko wrote
(in article<5f019481$0$17350$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>):

Hello group,

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or
perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

AFAIK, HTML or Rich Text Format (RTF) is a global appearance feature of Apple Mail, not a property of an individual account. I remember it called "View as HTML" in older versions of Mail but it looks like it got renamed "plain text" or "rich text" on my Apple Mail v11.5 under on MacOS 10.13.6. I think Apple Mail is tied to specific releases of MacOS. I don't have access to 10.14 or 10.15 or 11.0beta to and verify this.

My workaround for this is to use a different mail reader for each account to get the different appearance and behavior. I have two gmail accounts, one for work and one for personal use. I use a different browser to login to each of them to get different settings and backgrounds, etc. You can't do this with Apple Mail, AFAIK.

Thanks for the suggestion, that's probably the simplest workaround for my case.

Apple provides what they provide with a feature set that is decided by Apple product management. If it doesn't have a feature you want, you have very little recourse other than to use another mail reader. That looks like the case with your request unless they implemented it in later versions of Mail.

MacUpdate lists a bunch of mail readers, some free, some paid for. Do some research and use one for one account and another for the other account. I don't know if the Reply-in-line vs. Reply-append is a feature in any of them. I always reply-in-line to a plain text message.

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In message <0001HW.24B228DC0077664570000547D2CF@news.individual.net> Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> wrote:

On 05-Jul-2020, Krzysztof Mitko wrote
(in article<5f019481$0$17350$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>):

Hello group,

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or
perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

AFAIK, HTML or Rich Text Format (RTF) is a global appearance feature of Apple
Mail, not a property of an individual account. I remember it called "View as HTML" in older versions of Mail but it looks like it got renamed "plain text"
or "rich text" on my Apple Mail v11.5 under on MacOS 10.13.6. I think Apple Mail is tied to specific releases of MacOS. I don't have access to 10.14 or 10.15 or 11.0beta to and verify this.

Mail has a preference for COMPOSING plain or rich text messages; it does
not have a preference for viewing messages as plain text.

MacUpdate lists a bunch of mail readers, some free, some paid for. Do some research and use one for one account and another for the other account. I don't know if the Reply-in-line vs. Reply-append is a feature in any of them.
I always reply-in-line to a plain text message.

Stay far far away from MacUpdate and never download anything from that
site (or cnet in general).

Spark and Microsoft Outlook (yes, really) are pretty good clients for
the Mac and have iPad versions that are also good.

I use Mail.app and work around some of it's limitations by sometimes
reading mail in mutt, so I'm not the best person to ask.

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For your reference, records indicate that
Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> wrote:

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

No business should want you to be mixing your work data with your personal data, email or otherwise. If they aren’t going to properly supply you with a work-only computer, your best approach would be to create another user account that is used exclusively for work purposes.

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On 2020-07-05 15:51:00 +0000, Krzysztof Mitko said:

On 2020-07-05 15:27:24 +0000, Percival John Hackworth said:

On 05-Jul-2020, Krzysztof Mitko wrote
(in article<5f019481$0$17350$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>):

Hello group,

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or
perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

AFAIK, HTML or Rich Text Format (RTF) is a global appearance feature of
Apple Mail, not a property of an individual account. I remember it
called "View as HTML" in older versions of Mail but it looks like it
got renamed "plain text" or "rich text" on my Apple Mail v11.5 under on
MacOS 10.13.6. I think Apple Mail is tied to specific releases of
MacOS. I don't have access to 10.14 or 10.15 or 11.0beta to and verify
this.

My workaround for this is to use a different mail reader for each account to >> get the different appearance and behavior. I have two gmail accounts,
one for work and one for personal use. I use a different browser to
login to each of them to get different settings and backgrounds, etc.
You can't do this with Apple Mail, AFAIK.

Thanks for the suggestion, that's probably the simplest workaround for my case.

An alternative workaround would be to create another user account on
your Mac, so you have two: one for "home" andone for "work" each with
mail set-up how you want. You can easily use Fast User Switching to
swap between the two accounts without needing to keep fully logging out
and in.

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On 7/5/20 PDT 9:14 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:

For your reference, records indicate that
Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> wrote:

I have two e-mail accounts in Mail.app. I would like to automatically
switch to HTML mails and top-posting with my work account, and use
plain text/bottom posting with personal e-mail. Is there a setting or
perhaps some Apple Script to do that?

No business should want you to be mixing your work data with your personal data, email or otherwise. If they aren’t going to properly supply you with a work-only computer, your best approach would be to create another user account that is used exclusively for work purposes.

I'd think a different mail client for each would be easier to switch,
with less chance of confusing which reply-to was which.
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