Apple mail preview dark mode issue

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Apple mail preview dark mode issue

In apple mail the preview pane doesn't always stsy 'dark',often when message is selected, the preview is 'white' (even sometimes when deselecting and reselecting the message)

This wouldn't worry me if dark mode was disabled, but it's annoying, particularly it only happends to selective inbound email.

Apple seems to think it's incompatible with Microsoft Exchange from the sender, which i guess could be true, but seems to warrent a 'fix'

Any way around this ? (Apart from turning Off dark mode, that is)

anyone run into same issue ?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Sep 20, 2020 7:05 AM

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VikingOSX

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Sep 20, 2020 8:36 AM in response to Tech198

If your received email is sent has HTML mail from a server somewhere, and they chose a white background for their content, then you will have no control over any "Dark" setting for that content.

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Tech198 Author

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Sep 21, 2020 7:48 PM in response to VikingOSX

This wouldn't make sense because my mate uses Microsoft Exchange 2013 at work... He doesn't change he's background color. But i get his email in "dark background" on mail (1st screenshot)

Apple discussions.. i get with white background as below always (2nd screenshot):

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dialabrain

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Sep 21, 2020 8:17 PM in response to Tech198

Tech198 wrote:

This wouldn't make sense because my mate uses Microsoft Exchange 2013 at work... He doesn't change he's background color. But i get his email in "dark background" on mail (1st screenshot)

Any email sent as plain text will have a dark background.

Apple discussions.. i get with white background as below always (2nd screenshot):

Apple does not send plain text emails.

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VikingOSX

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Sep 22, 2020 8:02 AM in response to Tech198

If you look at the raw source of that Apple email, it is HTML content, and they typically set the body background-color to white. Here is a screen shot of the raw source HTML content that I just received from Apple, and it clearly is setting the CSS background-color to white, which Apple Mail dutifully displays:

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