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Different fonts in composing and sending

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ylva2
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When I compose an email it has a font that is good for me, but when I look at my sent mail, the font is much bigger (also in the reply of someone to my mail). I have been fiddling around with

tools > options > general and/or tools > options > composition

but whatever I do (I tried plenty of different configurations), the fonts change both in composition and sent. So when it is right in composition, the font in sent is too big; when it is right in sent, the font in composition is too small.

What am I missing?

Thanks for your advice, tips and answers!

Ylva

When I compose an email it has a font that is good for me, but when I look at my sent mail, the font is much bigger (also in the reply of someone to my mail). I have been fiddling around with tools > options > general and/or tools > options > composition but whatever I do (I tried plenty of different configurations), the fonts change both in composition and sent. So when it is right in composition, the font in sent is too big; when it is right in sent, the font in composition is too small. What am I missing? Thanks for your advice, tips and answers! Ylva

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The encoding options don't affect display font sizes, and you can leave them at their current values unless you encounter messages with odd characters.

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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Keep the defaults in Options/Composition, but in Options/General/Language & Appearance, Advanced, set the fonts and sizes with Fonts for: Latin and repeat with Fonts for: Other Writing Systems, and uncheck 'Allow messages to use other fonts'.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Font_settings_in_Thunderbird

ylva2
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The default options for Text encoding are:

Outgoing mail: Unicode (UTF-8) Incoming mail: Western (ISO-8859-1)

Why are the y different and do they have effect on font size as well?

sfhowes
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The encoding options don't affect display font sizes, and you can leave them at their current values unless you encounter messages with odd characters.