Q: Mails send with Apple Mail get displayed always with font times new roman. Is there are workaround? When does Apple fix this. It&a ... Mails send with Apple Mail get displayed always with font times new roman. Is there are workaround? When does Apple fix this. It´s unprofessional if you have to use mail for business. more
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Jun 13, 2014 3:34 AM in response to Lexiepexby Csound1,Those preferences control what is used to display the email on the senders machine, Jan wants control over the recipients machine as well (cheek )
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Jun 13, 2014 4:46 AM in response to Lexiepexby PatPawlowski,Yes, that blank area on the right would be a great place to put the settings we are asking for.
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Jun 13, 2014 4:55 AM in response to PatPawlowskiby Csound1,PatPawlowski wrote:
Yes, that blank area on the right would be a great place to put the settings we are asking for.
What mechanism, what protocols do you intend to control with these 'settings' What method will you select so that you can impose your choices on the receiving machine?
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Jun 13, 2014 5:17 AM in response to Lexiepexby Csound1,LexSchellings wrote:
if the recipient has the font you chose, it will be displayed as such,
Maybe
when he does not have it, it will be displayed in his standard font.
Definitely
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Jun 13, 2014 5:29 AM in response to Csound1by Lexiepex,uhmm, tested between macs. I am not sure of all Windows mail apps can handle more fonts...
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Jun 13, 2014 6:03 AM in response to Lexiepexby Barney-15E,LexSchellings wrote:
uhmm, tested between macs. I am not sure of all Windows mail apps can handle more fonts...
That's the problem. Windows users are almost exclusively Outlook which is the world's worst email client for rendering standards-compliant email. Microsoft has no impetus to make it better as they are primarily concerned with Exchange customers, not consumers.
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Jun 13, 2014 6:17 AM in response to Barney-15Eby Lexiepex,So that means you should use another mail client than Outlook, or is it a general windows problem?
Lex
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Jun 13, 2014 6:51 AM in response to mgellertby PatPawlowski,Apple Mail does not send style information. That's the issue. It's the only email client I have ever known that does not send any style informaion by default. The emial goes out as HTML but the body text does not contain any styling information unless you add it manualy while you compose the email.
Yes, pretty much every email client out there allows you to override this styling information but almost nobody does. I cetainly don't because if someone sends me an email and wants to use styling as part of their communication I would like to honor that and hopefully better understand what they are trying to say.
All these other email clients also have a default style that they use when no style is defined in the incoming email. Most of the time this is irrelevant because nearly all email clients send style information so the default is not used. In Outlook that default is Times New Roman. A great print font but not so great for screen. Notice that nobody, not even Apple an this site, uses it. i.e it's a bad choice for a default screen font.
In the end Outlook users see Apple Mail emails in Times New Roman and it looks crappy. Most of us would like our emails to look pretty much the same to the user who recieves them as they do to us when we hit send. With Apple Mail this is mostly not the case. Of course the recipient can screw with their settings and make the emails they recieve look as ugly as they want them to. They can even just set their client to display all email as plain text. They can also refuse to use email and communicate with smoke signals but that really has no bearing on the issue at hand then when you hit send the email does not arrive on the other end looking like you intended it to.


