Brad wrote last week about how to speed up mail by stripping out unnecessary information. If you do not care about pictures and animations and whatnot, there is a simple Terminal command that can be used to force all incoming mail into Plain Text. Open Terminal and type the following
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE
This makes it so that all incoming mail is viewed only in text, no pictures whatsoever; which means less data to load which in turn speeds up load times. This trick is great to use when you are stuck with a dial up or cellphone modem connection.
To reverse, just retype the same command but replace “TRUE” with “FALSE”
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Charlie