Re: [Evolution] Evolution in a Outlook world

[Hans <hvdmerwe sunspace co za>]

Ye, "Standard Font" isn't really my definition of HTML mail fonts? Or is
this one of those "many users doing something wrong" = "standard way of
doing" from now on?


On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 15:19 +0100, Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 15:15 +0200, Hans wrote:
> > I'm the sole Evolution user in a sea of Outlook clients that sends
> > MS-HTML formatted mails around.
> > My issue is that my "normal" mail display font is nicely tuned to
> > display perfectly on my hi-res laptop LCD and the HTML mails are always
> > one or two pt lower in res than the normal mails - displaying just to
> > small to be easily readable.
> > 
> > Can I change the font size of HTML messages independently from the text
> > mails?
> 
> Hehe, I recognise this one. HTML mails for some reason are always ugly
> on evolution (but maybe on other mailers as well). And indeed they are
> always smaller pointsize than non-HTML mails. I sort of resolved this by
> changing the general gnome font size for applications, this seems to be
> the font size that evolution uses, and then unmark the "use the same
> fonts as other applications" tick and specify my own font+size here,
> this is the one that evolution uses for non-HTML mail.
> 
> Not completely logical imho.
> 
> Besides that, I'd very much like to have a simple option to view the
> ascii-part of a message instead of the HTML-formatted part, local to the
> currently selected message. That is not the same as the "don't show
> HTML" plugin.