BIll Spikowski wrote:
I'm experimenting on three different machines and the results are
inconsistent.
Setting a "monospace" font and font size always results in that font
and size being used in the Compose windows, but I can't figure out why
it's so inconsistent as to the preview pane.
I understand that this setting won't affect incoming emails that were
composed in HTML, but it's inconsistent even on what I believe are
plain-text emails. How can I tell which are in plain text for sure?
One idea is that some incoming emails might look like plain text
because they appear in Courier New, my choice of monospace font, but
actually be HTML.
Depending on the sender's settings, sometimes messages are sent in both
plain text and HTML. Depending on the recipient's settings, one or the
other of those will be displayed.
If you examine the "source code" of such a message (with the message
open, do CTRL-U), you'll see something like this (ellipses indicate
omissions for the sake of clarity):
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="gobbledygook"
Content-language: en-us
...
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--gobbledygook
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
...
--gobbledygook
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
...
In this example, the sending machine marked the first copy of the
message as plain text and the second copy as HTML. I've used the word
"gobbledygook" to represent the alphabet soup you'll actually see for
the boundary.
I'm not sure how SM handles such messages, but I would expect plain-text
settings to apply if the rules say to display the message as plain text,
and HTML settings to apply if the rules say to display the message as
HTML. But I can't figure out how to specify these rules.
Another possibility is that some of your senders may have specified
non-Western encodings. If you look carefully at
Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts
you will find that Monospace can be set differently for different
encodings. For example, I have Western monospace set to Courier New, but
Korean monospace set to GulimChe. So if a sender specifies Korean
encoding, I'll see it in GulimChe instead of Courier New. You can also
set different sizes for different encodings.
Two other places you may want to look:
1) Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Message Display
There's an option:
Plain text messages
Font: (•) Fixed width (o) Variable width
So you could set it to display plain-text messages with proportional
font(s), but AFAIK the default is fixed-width.
2) Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Composition
There's an option:
Defaults for HTML Messages:
Font: [Variable Width]
You can pull down [Fixed Width] or a specific font from the list.
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