Hi,

On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 08:47 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 11:40 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> > evolution 3.16.x is the first release with the WebKitGTK+ based
> > composer, the previous old GtkHTML composer had been replaced. One
> > consequence is that the HTML messages understand CSS also in the
> > composer.
> 
> Yeah, I remember that.
> 
> > I currently do not recall anything similar. There was a bug about font
> > sizes, but not about font names.
> > 
> > Does the message looks the same weird if you save it as a Draft and
> > watch it in the message preview? If it does, then you can check the
> > HTML values in the message source to see what fonts it uses.
> 
> Some new information:
> 
>  * I have my mail set to use Plain Text by default (FYI)
>  * If I respond to an email with lots of formatting, Evo now asks me if
>    I want to lose the formatting or preserve it.  If I say "preserve"
>    then the reply starts in HTML mode.  In this case I DO get proper
>    proportional fonts.
>  * If I save a draft email (or send an email to myself) in HTML mode
>    where I should see a proportional font, the message in the preview
>    (or sent to me) does use a fixed width font.
>  * The body of the message in the preview shows: 
>    bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#2a76c6" vlink="#215d9c"
>    spellcheck="true" style="font-family: Monospace;" data-new-message=""
>    data-evo-draft=""> so the "font-family: Monospoce" is clearly the
>    problem.
>  * However, if I take that draft message and say "Edit as new message",
>    now the font is properly proportional again.  And if I save THAT as
>    draft and open it I get proportional fonts and the body statement
>    shows: 
>    link="#2a76c6" vlink="#215d9c" spellcheck="true" data-new-message=""
>    data-evo-draft="" data-edit-as-new=""> so there's no font-family set
>    here.
> 
> it looks to me like somehow when switching from "Plain Text" to "HTML"
> modes, the "font-family: Monospace" value in the body is preserved when
> it should be tossed.  If the message starts out in HTML mode from the
> start, then this doesn't happen.

It's exactly as you said. It was already fixed for Evolution 3.18., see
[0].

[0] - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753702

Tom
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