Mail.app is eating Bamboo

We upgraded Bamboo recently. The latest version sends out much smarter email summaries of build failures. Unfortunately, Mail.app eats the HTML so I get an email that has a subject and zero visible content...unless I go to View -> Message -> Best Alternative.

I have to hit a few button to tell Mail.app "You're HTML display is busted. Try something else"?! No other email client I've ever used has ever had trouble dealing with HTML, even horribly malformed HTML. Mail.app mostly seems to be able to handle HTML, but these corner cases are really annoying, especially when you have to deal with them on every message. I can't even set this property on a folder or a smart folder. That's really bad design.

Here's how you get Mail.app to fix itself--also terrible design. Open up terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool FALSE

Yikes.

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