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Need help, Mail default font color
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<blockquote data-quote="EndlessMac" data-source="post: 1091534" data-attributes="member: 140470"><p>I think the problem you are experiencing is that Mail sends everything as plain text as default even if you choose rich text in the preferences. It seems that it will only send html rich text emails when it thinks you have something in your email that needs it if you have the rich text option selected. The font size only changes on your screen so it's a little misleading that you actually changed the font size. I've sent emails to myself on a different account to test it out.</p><p></p><p>The only way I have been able to change the font size is by pressing the font button in the new message window. I'm assuming this is the same with color. It seems that when you make changes using the new message buttons instead of in preferences it now sends html rich text emails. I've never really used color much so I haven't done much testing with settings. </p><p></p><p>Although you might want to second guess your color choice because many people prefer plain text emails which means black text without all the fancy fonts. This is probably why Apple choose not to allow us to make changes to the default. You have to physically change it every time in the new message window if you want to send it with your custom colors and fonts. If it's really an issue for you then you might want to try out Thunderbird because I think it doesn't have this problem but people might be annoyed with you sending colored text. Brown is not as easy to read as black.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EndlessMac, post: 1091534, member: 140470"] I think the problem you are experiencing is that Mail sends everything as plain text as default even if you choose rich text in the preferences. It seems that it will only send html rich text emails when it thinks you have something in your email that needs it if you have the rich text option selected. The font size only changes on your screen so it's a little misleading that you actually changed the font size. I've sent emails to myself on a different account to test it out. The only way I have been able to change the font size is by pressing the font button in the new message window. I'm assuming this is the same with color. It seems that when you make changes using the new message buttons instead of in preferences it now sends html rich text emails. I've never really used color much so I haven't done much testing with settings. Although you might want to second guess your color choice because many people prefer plain text emails which means black text without all the fancy fonts. This is probably why Apple choose not to allow us to make changes to the default. You have to physically change it every time in the new message window if you want to send it with your custom colors and fonts. If it's really an issue for you then you might want to try out Thunderbird because I think it doesn't have this problem but people might be annoyed with you sending colored text. Brown is not as easy to read as black. [/QUOTE]
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