Thanks for the enlightening discussions from everyone. I will try more methods 
on recalcitrant emails. 

And Of course, I can always copy the text into a word processor and read it 
there. [/sarcasm]

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 18, 2019, at 9:11 PM, Bill Cole 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 18 Aug 2019, at 19:17, leo wrote:
>> 
>> The two sutblties you mention are correct. But I disgree with your assesment 
>> that it is not unraseable to leave html as is. Even browsers can change the 
>> overall size of standard HTML!
> 
> So can MailMate, as long as the composer of the HTML has not specified sizes. 
> If they have provided a reasonable plaintext alternative part, MM can also 
> display that in the font and size of your choice.
> 
> As for reasonability of handling HTML mail, I admit I'm a biased judge. By 
> calling the current lack of flexibility "reasonable" I only mean that it 
> makes sense in the context of HTML mail with specified font sizes.
> I don't believe HTML mail should exist at all or that device-dependent 
> presentation details like absolute font sizes have any place in a markup 
> language.
> 
>> It would be ***very*** helpful for people with *slightly* deteriorating 
>> eye-sight to be able to nudge up the font sizes in an email without 
>> resorting to underlying accessibility features of the OS.
> 
> Yes. As I said:
> 
>>> Hopefully at some point Benny will replicate what Safari does to zoom text 
>>> to have mercy on old guys like me...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Cole
> [email protected] or [email protected]
> (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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