Using AppleScript to set a mail message to Plain Text

Question

I have an AppleScript that nicely collates information and creates an email message with attachments.

I cannot find a way for the script to set the message format to

Answer 1

Before the section in your script that creates a message, add this line.

 tell application "Mail" to set default message format to plain text

At the very end of the script add this to reset the value

 tell application "Mail" to set default message format to rich text