9/23/2023 0 Comments Mac mail attachment tamerWhat I, and from what I can see many people, don't understand is most Mail Software (if not all), except Apple mail, don’t have this issue. I always use Arial 12pt for my out going message, but it's frustrating that I have to each time select my text and change the font and point size, (which means my screen message font has to be another font and size otherwise apple mail does not pick up the change). Without the 'user' having to each time manually choose this font. The issue could be easily resolved with an option for an Apple Mail user to set up what font they want their out going message to be in and for Apple Mail to actually tag that font in the message. However this seems to create strange changes on the receivers end and sometimes the font can come out huge or varying, there is no consistency and the email looks ugly, As a business owner, my email is my letter head, and is a communicational face of my business. In-fact it is left blank, and the receivers mail will change it to a default such as times new roman. I later discovered this is only my screen font, and when we compose an email this font (for instance Arial 12pt) is not tagged in the outgoing message. The 'gripe' is that it seems that when we setup our message font in preferences one is under the impression this is the font that will be sent out. I am fully aware of what you have just said, and I do follow this basic protocol. A recipient will only see the same thing if they just happen to have the same font and point size chosen for viewing incoming plain text as you do for composing. It doesn't matter what font or point size you have set on your end, they will see the message as whatever font and point size they have set for incoming plain text messages. If they don't have the font on their end and have it activated, that part of the message will have the font replaced with whatever is set as one of their mail defaults.Īnything sent as plain text is the same. Only a tag that notes what font was used. Fonts do not get sent along with an email. If you use any fonts not normally found on default systems (Mac or Windows), then only you will see that font. You also must use a font both of you have, which would, for the most part, be limited to this set: In order for recipients to see mail as you composed it, you must use rich text format (HTML). (I currently have a 'type here.' at the begining of my signature so my body text is part of that, but I find even that can be glitchy if I have to copy and past text/content or links into the body, and sometimes that even goes funny when it gets to the other side, but it's better than nothing I suppose). I'd love to know if there is another solution or any advice on how best to solve this issue without me having to manually change things everytime. I Love using Apple Mail for all its other uses and handy features, so I do put up with it, but this font issue is a basic feature which should be fixed and I cannot understand why it has been ignored? Apple mail is the only mail software - that I'm aware of - that does this). In the end, this should be Apples responsability to fix (I know some Apple advocats say it is not acctually a glitch but as I see it, if I have to keep manually changing my font and font size to force it to NOT look crap on the other side, that is a problem. Also it is non compatiable with Attachment Tamer. There is also Universal Mailer but I don't like the way it affects attachemts, because it keeps converting my inline company logo in my signature to an attachment instead of leaving it inline - which means I have to keep re-attaching it which is frustrating. MessageFont apparently did work for the font issue, but seems to be no longer available. In terms of attachments I use Attachment Tamer for my attachments, which works well (but we should not need to use an app to fix how attachments work, this should be automatically built in function as a basic standard). I do not understand why it has not been sort it out by now. Go to Mail > Preferences > Composing, and set “Message Format†to plain text.This font issue on Apple mail with other mail apps like Outlook, has been one of my biggest gripes with Apple Mail for a long time. Rather than fix the bug from the PC end, which you probably do not have control over, there are some things that you can do from the Macintosh side. Microsoft write about how to fix it on the actual Exchange Server here: Microsoft write about the problem and how to fix it on the PC here: This can be caused by either the Microsoft mail server the person is using, or a bug in Outlook Express on their Windows PC. Some PC users complain that mail messages forwarded from Apple mail come out blank, with the entire message as an attachment.
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