I’ve been trying to have a global font Tahoma size 16 for everything…reading new emails, replies/forwarding, composing new emails but it seems replies and forwarding and reading new emails all get overwritten by the author of the email I receive. I’m not interested in zoom…which makes small font bigger and big font gigantic…unless you constantly change the zoom level. I use HTML, and have compose option at Tahoma 16.
Go into “Menu / Settings (Preferances Mac)” and go down to “Mail / Read” and set your default Read font size. Then Apply & Save settings.
Note: If your current email windows are zoomed larger or smaller than normal, “close all your open message windows” and then “right click in a message” and click Zoom / Original. Then close and reopen eM Client and that will set it globally.
(eM Client V10 Mac Settings Read font size example)
Thank you for your response cyberzork. I am zoomed to original. I am reading in HTML and am subject to the senders font code, unless I have read in plain text enabled in which case…yes I will have my font size. This seems the only way to take control of font and size for reading new emails, replies/forwarding, composing.
Yes if the sender creates an html email and eg: forces a specific font and size in the sent email html code, then your default reading font won’t change / override that.
There is nothing you can normally do about that if it happens, other than adjust it after it arrives.
Most of my friends and business colleagues send in the same general font and size which is Tahoma or Arial12, but I do get the odd custom web based html emails arrive, that can sometimes have very large or unusually large differant style fonts & graphics etc in the senders email, due to the html coding forced in the sent email. So I adjust those after they arrive.
When you compose a new blank email, that should however always be the same fon’t and size due to what you set in the eM Client “Setting / Mail / Compose” font section…
Now when you are replying or forwarding to an email, I always recommend “before you start typing” (to press the return key twice) to create a couple of spaces between the sent HTML email and your typed email, as otherwise your typing “might pickup the same fon’t and size” as the original sent HTML email and won’t use your default font & size.
Thank you again for confirming what I’ve been experiencing as normal behaviour.