Composing Mail - TOO SMALL to read

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

it seemed to me that that's what the OP wants - otherwise there would be no point in even thinking of the font size "to send", as it will depend entirely on the recipient's settings.

It seemed to me that the OP wants to have a very large font at his end without having the reader seeing the same big font at the other end. Mail normally takes care of that automatically. The recipient sees your mail in whatever font he decides is right for him (unless you jump through extra hoops in the New Message pane for each outgoing).

Tom Gewecke wrote:

It seemed to me that the OP wants to have a very large font at his end without having the reader seeing the same big font at the other end. Mail normally takes care of that automatically. The recipient sees your mail in whatever font he decides is right for him (unless you jump through extra hoops in the New Message pane for each outgoing).

Agreed... provided that the sender is using plain text.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

Agreed... provided that the sender is using plain text.

Is it also your experience that setting Mail > Preferences > Composing to Rich Text does not in fact produce rich text but only plain text in your outgoing, with no indication of font name or size in the raw source message codes? It's worth checking if you have not done so already.

Tom Gewecke wrote:

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

Agreed... provided that the sender is using plain text.

Is it also your experience that setting Mail > Preferences > Composing to Rich Text does not in fact produce rich text but only plain text in your outgoing, with no indication of font name or size in the raw source message codes? It's worth checking if you have not done so already.

I have not tested recently, but I think the answer is yes. Unless I manually set something that forces rich text, like using a specific font or using bold or italics, it will come out as plain text.

Hi - did you find a fix for this? I have called apple to raise the same issue and they are saying the only fix is to increase the font of the message when composing and then reduce back down before sending. I have been doing this but twice I have forgotten to reduce back down so the recipient has ended up with a huge font making me look a bit of a wally! Seems a really basic thing to be able to do.

I've tried this and changing to plain text but the sender is getting the message with the large font I am composing using. Perhaps I am doing something wrong but like you I have poor eyesight so would like to find a way to do this.

By "magnifying glass view", I thought you were referring to the Picture-in-Picture setting.

Feel free to send Apple feedback.

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Tom Gewecke wrote:

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What size font are you using for composing?

Ah ok thanks Luis. I have changed the format to plain test but how do I set it up so that I can compose in 24pt font and the recipient gets say 11pt font message?