Desiree wrote:
"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.
I do, too, mostly; for certain specific recipients and applications I
use HTML, but in newsgroups like this it's all plain text. AFAIK there
are no separate prefs for HTML vs. plain-text colors.
BTW, this is only a display feature for your convenience. The colors in
plain-text messages are not sent out to your recipients. All they get is
plain text, and that's displayed on their machines according to their
own preferences.
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).
I just tested the settings I showed you by setting them all to black,
and it looked like nothing happened, but when I selected a different
message and returned, everything was black just like you asked.
If you've set the pref to use red, why are you unhappy that it's using
red? Most users would be happy if a program did as it was told. Why
don't you just set it to black if that's what you want?
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?
Nope, see my previous paragraph.
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.
This last setting works in plain text messages as well, and if I happen
to have a message containing a link open when I change the pref, it
takes effect instantly.
The only thing I couldn't influence was the blue quoted text in the
composition window. Perhaps someone else has an idea for that.
And perhaps someone can explain why your settings don't work but mine do.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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