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In an earlier preview build of Lion, I was able to change the size of the Mailbox font used in the left sidebar to view more content in the column, but I don't remember what I did to change it. The Mail/Preferences/Fonts & Colors pane no longer has a Mailbox font option.
Does anyone know how to change the Mail sidebar font size in Lion?
2.8GHz 24, Mac OS X (10.7)
Go to system prefs > general. change sidebar icon size, and the font size will also change.
Just for the record, I was responding to the posters asking about the "message list", not the "mailbox list" that is in the sidebar (obviously).
The sidebar "font size" setting works for me in controlling the _size_ of the font in the sidebar. Like others, I have not found anything to control the actual font type in the sidebar.
When I deselect "use classic layout", and thus go into three columnn mode, I loose control of the message list font: it does not obey the settings.
GaJ
You've defined it just right, GreenAsJade, and Mail 6.0 is unworkable until this gets fixed. It's back to the Gmail web interface for me. Very disappointing. Mail in the old view is an old-fashioned, clunky program that doesn't deal at all well with conversation threads. The new three-column view fixes that and makes a really nice program, the mail list is unreadable and the preferences don't work. Forget "think different." Just think, Apple.
yay! Thanks FAN. For me it was the Mailbox list sidebar thing in Mail. Solved, and you're a genius.
How Do I Change the Mailbox Font Size in the Sidebar?
