Mail - OSX Lion - Can't change font in mail list

Thanks!

This is frustrating indeed, using Classic layout now.

Well, is there anyway to pinch-to-zoom with the new look Mail? I received a wishy-washy answer when I asked the question to Applecare support.

I find it somehow strange that my message list seems to look different that all the screenshots I got to see:

I think the preview font used here is helvetica, it should be lucida grande. I didn’t do anything to the mail.app, just installed lion, opened mail and got this result. which looks ugly. and, of course, none of the prefs influence the look of this list… I also deleted the pref-file, but with no result. I would be very happy with the default style…

That's what mine looks like except in English! It is readable but just barely for me on a 13" screen. They are trying to duplicate the look of mail on an ipad. But on my ipad it's easily readable from the start as well as the screen being closer to you as well. I like the message preview and want to keep this view but if we don't get a way to increase the font size I may just give up and switch it back to the "classic" view without the message preview.

I agree. I hate this! I can't believe that Apple didn't think this through, especially after all the previous complaints about font sizes not being scaleable.

Fix it !

I second the well done.

A related issue is the Message on the right. Preferences/Fonts works for that, except when the sender chose a teeny tiny font (like 8pt). I need to be able to specify a minimum font size for messages.

This is important for (MacBook) Air Heads, and for folks with giant screens.

Hm, this does indeed appear to be a bug. Everyone that wants to see this behavior changed be sure and submit feedback <http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html>. Be polite! Anger and aggression doesn't help get your feedback read.

Just another voice to say I too am fustrated by this problem. I've submitted feedback as suggested. I hope this gets fixed soon. Meanwhile, I'm going back to Classic view.

had to switch to classic (which BTW looks worse than in Snow Leopard)
what a major bug!

Personally, I'd like to go the other way than the rest of you. I want to make the message list font *SMALLER*, but it still doesn't work when you try to do that. As all the rest of you have said, I can make the message font size smaller, etc. and those settings take effect. It's only the mail list font that refuses to change.

Also, someone above said something about setting a Minimum Font Size for the mail window so they don't have to work with the small font instructions in some e-mails they receive. I'd like to do the same reverse thing there to! I don't want to have to use a huge font because the sender of the message choose a huge font. Probably it'd be best if Apple would just let you a tick a box to say 'Always use my own font settings' or similar.

I am experiencing the same problem and submitted a bug report already.

Does Sparrow have this ability? I have tried to get used to Thunderbird, and I just cannot. Its integration is just too poor, and it is missing important features like the ability to create a new Note and have it synched with my iOS devices.

I reported the font issue to Apple accessibility late in Lion’s development cycle, but probably too late to get a response. I’ve reported a bug some weeks ago now regarding the release version, now installed on my (now vintage) MacBook Air. I haven’t taken the plunge on my iMac yet because I’ve been waiting for 10.7.2 to fix a couple of bugs. Hopefully this one among them.

Has anyone seen something like that? How Can I fix it, before I throw my iMac throygh the window?

After Upgrdae from 10.6 to 10.7.2 I get this view ...

I just see AAAAAAAAAA

as if the Apple guys guessed my feeling after this upgrade 😢

logged a bug ... it seems that they still fighting this one.

How difficult can a font problem be . Common Apple you can do much much better !

I don't get that, but I do still have the bug in 10.7.2. Very poor. So we still wait for what must surely be a simple bug fix for Apple. 10.7.3 perhaps?