"Paul B. Gallagher" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Desiree wrote: > >> I have quoted text for Plain Text under Preferences/Message Display >> (I never use HTML for mail) to be in black font. Instead it is in >> green font. Green is the color use for unvisited web links but quoted >> text should not use that color! >> >> I want it in black font. This problem was why I stopped using >> Thunderbird years ago. There quoted text was in a very garish blue >> and there was no option at that time to change it to black or some >> other color. In OE, quoted text is in black font and I want it that >> way in any other email client I use. >> >> How do I get SeaMonkey to use black font? Also, how do I get >> SeaMonkey to use black font for my reply? It uses green the same as >> the quoted text. > > Edit | Preferences | Composition. At the bottom of the dialog, "Defaults > for HTML messages," click each color box to open a color palette, choose, > OK out. > I don't use HTML. I read all mail in plain text only and compose only in plain text. I can't see anywhere to adjust plain text settings. This was the reason I stopped using Thunderbird years ago and I suppose SM mail is like Thunderbird in this regard.
> For some reason I don't understand, quoted text is blue (not my setting) > in the composition window, but red (my setting) once I've sent or received > a message. Quoted text in the composition window being blue used to be (not sure about now) default with Thunderbird and it couldn't be changed (probably can be changed now but several years ago when I used it could not). For me in SM, quoted text is green and I think it is using the color that I have set, green, for unvisited links on web pages. Then when looking at quoted text in a received message it is in red and, again, I think it uses the color you choose for visited links. I have red chosen for visited links. I want everything including links in black text. I want NO colors. There shouldn't be any with plain text anyway. I understand SM using link colors for quoted text IF you are are reading or composing in HTML. But when using plain text only, as I do, all text (including any links) should be in black only. I find it extremely distracting and difficult to read when in a bunch of colors. (I have a filter to stop Scroogle from highlighting search terms in the results in a bunch of colors. I want black text only on search results. But the filter I use for Scroogle is a filter for the Proxomitron and Proxo doesn't filter email clients). > > See also: Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Message Display. At the > bottom of the dialog, "Settings for quoted messages" also has a color box > that works the same way. I already mentioned that I have that setting to show quoted messages in black text but it seems SM ignores that setting. Maybe that applies only to HTML messages and not plain text? > > For web page appearance: Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Colors has five > color boxes. AFAIK the settings for links also apply in email messages. Yes, I agree that evidently SM uses the settings for links on web pages also for links in email. I also believe SM is using those same settings for quoted text. I don't like that. OE supposedly is tied to IE settings, but not for link colors, or quoted text colors. It is tied to IE only when using Plain text because the text size for plain text in OE is determined by the text size setting you have for IE. That is another thing about SM. I can't find anyway to change the text size for email reading or composing. So, I assume that it, like OE, uses the minimum font size designated in SM for text on web pages. If I was using HTML, I could probably easily change text size but not for plain text. I never use IE so I don't mind keeping the web page text size in IE a little too large so it is a nice size for OE. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
