As an alternative to Outlook 2003 this client is fast and excellent
(animated gifs work / password logon / mail rules etc - all very similar to Outlook)
But I’m having a ‘deal-breaker moment’ which I hope someone can advise me with.
The problem is replying to mail with my preferred font/colour (Comic Sans, Dark Red) without having to manually change this every time and without affecting other aspects of the mail.
Reply to some emails: Compose supercedes Template (problem A)
Reply to some emails: Template supercedes Compose (problem B)
(A) The font set in ‘Compose’ affects the Subject/To/From/Date lines (which should stay as Tahoma). So my reply text becomes Tahoma black.
(B) The font/colour set in a template can affect ALL of the mail (inc Subject lines and rec’d mail in black). So EVERYTHING gets changed to Comic Sans / Dark Red.
I do not have this problem with Outlook 2003 - everything stays as it should whatever email I reply to.
Is it possible to setup (via Compose/Template) a method where I can reliably reply to any mail always with my preferred font/colour without it affecting anything else below it ?? (atm it seems impossible…)
Hi John - many thx for the reply.
Unfortunately it doesn’t answer the question
In Outlook 2003 it is possible to set a default font & colour for new mail or reply to mail (it virtually always works).
In EM this doesn’t seem possible.
There are 2 available options in EM to setup a default: ‘Compose’ & ‘Template’.
Both have varying degrees of success - but also failure (as described in my OP).
This means it’s often necessary to highlight your typed text to change font/colour (which I find an aggravating time waster).
Perhaps I’m being too ‘picky’ and most users aren’t bothered using a specific font/colour in their replies (or are happy to continually change it), but for me it was a deal-breaker…
I tried all the EM options to get it to work as I wanted without success.
Much as I like EM, I have now gone back to Outlook 2003.
Many thx for the reply - I don’t need address specific templates.
The problem with a template is how it can globally affect text when writing a reply.
When replying, I want the rec’d mail to stay in its original font/colour.
I do not want ALL the text (inc subject, date, and received mail) to be changed to the same font/colour set in a template.
This is a major flaw, making the use of a template to set a preferred font unusable.
