Using Apple Mail I occasionally receive complaints, mainly from Linux users, that I should limit the length of a line to 80 characters. The only problem, Apple Mail doesn't support this!
It's no problem doing this in pretty much any other email client. So switching from Apple Mail to something like Thunderbird or Opera Mail may be an option. But I actually like Apple Mail so, that's not really an idea I'd like to go with.
Luckily I found this thread on the Apple Support forum that explains how to use Automator to partially get around this problem.
The answer by "Scott Atchley" really works quite well. What he does there is simply to create a new Service in Automator. It takes selected text from the Mail application, sends it through the "fmt" command and replaces the original.
I've created the workflow and put it on my Google Drive for you to download.
Or if you'd like to create it yourself, here's a screenshot of how this simple service looks on my Mac:
Once created and put into the
~/Library/Services/directory it shows up in your keyboard shortcut menu. Create a shortcut of your liking.
Once the shortcut is set, restart Apple Mail and try it out. Select the text you'd like to transform and hit your shortcut.
Even so this solution works it's but a dirty hack. Apple should really add that feature to Apple Mail. I really hope that they get over this "consumer" idiocy and once again respect their pro users, many of which are veterans using macs since the early 90s or even earlier.
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