Mozillia Thunderbird 3.0.1

by jason1214 Feb 12, 2010 3:31AM PST

Using the HTML choice, how can I make all incoming text messages
arrive in the font Arial 12 size ?

I want all incoming messages to arrive in the choice I choose and not use the font that the sender chooses. Ho can I do this using Mozillia thunderbird ?

Windows 7 professional, IE 8, AMD Athlon 64 x 2.

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Not sure that's possible.

by MarkFlax Forum moderator Feb 12, 2010 5:06AM PST

If you view emails in HTML format, then the sender selects the font from within the HTML coding itself.

Hmm. Scrap that.

In Thunderbird > Tools > Options, goto the "Display" tab, then under the Formatting sub-tab click the Advanced button for "Default font".

Are there any options there that will allow you to do that? Font control looks useful.

Let us know if that works.

Mark

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font choice

by jason1214 Feb 12, 2010 5:47AM PST

yes all are checked to my liking...but messages still come in with tiny fonts and Lucinda cursive and the likes of such.....

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I think the problem there

by MarkFlax Forum moderator Feb 12, 2010 7:44PM PST

will be 'inline' fonts.

I can't be sure because I have never investigated email HTML setup, but I know with web site HTML that, in addition to global font settings for each page, individual elements can also have font types, size, and color set as required.

For example;

At the beginning of a basic web page construction, within the <Body> tag, the following are set, body background, bgcolor, text, link, vlink, alink. But within the web site itself attributes can be set for individual text, eg <font="arial"></font>, <font size="2"></font>, etc.

Add to that any attributes set in CSS and in Javascript, then such attributes can be scattered all over a web page.

I believe, but am willing to be corrected, that the options we have in browser settings and email client settings, may only change the global attributes, and not others.

I think you may be out of luck.

Mark

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The sender chooses html ...

by Kees Bakker Feb 13, 2010 3:06AM PST

to be able to influence the font (and other things). Have a look at source of the mail and you'll see.

I don't know Thunderbird, but you might be able to tell it to display the TEXT version of the file. All html-mails come in two parts, the html part used by email clients that 'speak' html and the text part, used by email clients that don't speak it.
In Outlook Express I can't do it, but Thunderbird might have such an option to make it dumber than it is. Mark uses Thunderbird, so he might be able to find out.

Kees

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Well it's strange.

by MarkFlax Forum moderator Feb 13, 2010 4:35AM PST

I can "View > Source" of any email, but I can't find where to restrict incoming emails to be displayed as 'text only'.

I was sure there was such an option as it is a valid security measure to read emails which are suspect, but I've lost it,

Mark

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