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<p dir="auto">On 4 Jan 2025, at 11:45, <a href="mailto:mailmate@businessdatasystems.co.nz" style="color: #3983C4;">mailmate@businessdatasystems.co.nz</a> wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 4 Jan 2025, at 15:01, Johnny via mailmate wrote:</p>
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<li>I want all recipients to see my outgoing mails in Times New Roman font. If I can set a font size, even better. </li>
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<p dir="auto">Please spare a thought for your recipients. When people send email to me that does not control the font settings it means that my preferred fonts are used to display the font and I find that very pleasing. When the sender forces me to read email in their preferred fonts faces and font sizes I'm rarely pleased by the choices they've made.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I agree with the above. Reading emails should not feel like browsing web pages.</p>
<p dir="auto">That said, the fight for plain text only emails was lost a long time ago. My ambition is to make the best of it, and MailMate has quite a lot of features utilizing HTML. This includes Markdown, code highlighting, graph drawing (Mermaid), math (ASCIIMath, TexMath), HTML signatures, and themes.</p>
<p dir="auto">Going forward, I would like to improve the support for using plain text markup and the use of themes (this includes allowing easier font-changes), BUT I'm only going to do this AFTER I add a feature I'm missing myself: Removing the styling done to incoming messages and enforcing my own styling. This would include forcing dark mode (a somewhat often requested feature).</p>
<p dir="auto">In other words, I won't care much about what people do to outgoing messages as long as I can make MailMate ignore it for incoming messages. I think most people can live with that.</p>
<p dir="auto">As always: No time frame on the above. I just wanted to share my general position on HTML related issues :)</p>
<p dir="auto">--<br>
Benny</p>
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