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increase mail viewing font size???

I have been tolerating this for years and am finally tired of it as there MUST be a way to fix this that I am unaware of.

I have my MacMail set to use an 11 pt Arial font when writing messages, which is a standard font size for letters, etc. However when you are reading or writing your message, it does not DISPLAY as 11 point, but teeny weeny as if you are using a 6 point font.

Increasing this in preferences to something like 18 point simply makes your display look larger (like 11 point) but then the message your recipient gets is monstrously huge because you are really sending them 18 point type!

Why is this not a normal Apple WYSIWYG view? I don't have this issue on anything else on my Macs (viewing Safari, Quicken, Quickbooks, Excel, Word, Text, Messages, whatever - only Mail messages.

There must be a fix for this - no? I literally am to the point where I have to use a magnifying glass to read what I'm typing! LOL!

Any help is appreciated.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Jul 4, 2015 5:04 AM

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gwv29

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Posted on Jan 22, 2018 10:59 AM

Just was writing a long Email and my lettering was getting too small to read as my eyes are not getting any better. A quick google search brought me here to find out how to increase the appearance of the mail I am writing, without changing the font size, as this would affect the way the mail is received (as clearly pointed out by the previous contributors). It is utterly disappointing that (apparently) this cannot be done! I second your disappointment over the lack of progress here.

As a loyal apple fan (my first mac was a mac classic in 1991), I am getting more and more disappointed; sloppy software upgrades more concerned with appearance than functionality (when was the last real killer new feature in OSX?), deteriorating security (remember the recent embarrassing mishaps), more and more the embrace of the Mac ecosystem only without consideration for other platforms, and getting more and more expensive relative to the competition (who wants to pay £2000 or even £3000 for a laptop that you can no longer upgrade?).

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