I write in Arial - It arrives as Times New Roman

Hi, I have a problem with iMail.
In my settings I have set arial as the standard font and all messages im my inbound and outbound box also appear as arial to me. Recipients of my messages though receive them in times new roman and in a different font size. I've been trying all day to fix this problem but everything I try doesn't work and since I use my mac for business I would really like to control the layout of my mails... Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance!!

Posted on Apr 1, 2008 3:30 AM

51 replies

Apr 11, 2008 6:59 AM in response to etresoft

"Outlook give you the option of creating either "Rich Text" or "HTML" messages. But, in fact, they are lying to you. Regardless of which one you choose, your "rich" messages are in HTML. I checked this inside my Mac's POP e-mail server just to make sure Apple Mail didn't convert something on the fly."

I think Outlook gives you 3 options:

* plain text (yay!)
* rich text
* HTML

If you select rich text, you often send out a blank message with a winmail.dat (TNEF) attachment which is the bane of humanity.

So I think rich text and HTML do differ on that side.

Barney-15E

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Apr 14, 2008 5:19 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

How does one set it to view in Arial, or anything else. I spent fifteen minutes rooting through Outlook's options to figure out how to set it. I didn't find a thing.

Now, why would you want to view messages in a font as ugly as Arial?

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 14, 2008 6:36 AM in response to Barney-15E

How does one set it to view in Arial, or anything else. I spent fifteen minutes rooting through Outlook's options to figure out how to set it. I didn't find a thing.

I have no idea, you need to ask Oldgustav.

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 3, 2008 1:49 PM in response to etresoft

But I am reasonably confident that it ... never used .rtf.

You are correct, my statement was off, Panther uses Enriched Text.

etresoft

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Apr 10, 2008 6:09 AM in response to Barney-15E

Barney-15E wrote:
Someone please send a bug report to Microsoft.

Microsoft doesn't do nice bug reports like Apple. It is a black art to try to find a way to submit a Microsoft bug.

Apr 15, 2008 12:42 AM in response to Barney-15E

Apologies, you can only set the font for viewing plain text messages. The default font for composing HTML messages is Arial.

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