[MlMt] Changing header font problems

Matthew Cawood matt.cawood at me.com
Sat Jan 10 15:45:52 EST 2015


Aha - thanks Benny. That did it.

Loving MailMate. I tried it as a cure to all that ails Apple Mail in 
Yosemite, and am finding it much more than a cure. And instant support 
like this helps, too. Looking for the credit card now ...

Matt

On 11 Jan 2015, at 2:18, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 10 Jan 2015, at 12:37, Matthew Cawood wrote:
>
>> I’m tinkering with MailMate, and attempted to change the header 
>> font using the instructions in Hidden Preferences. I pasted
>>
>> 	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmHeadersViewFontName -string 
>> “HelveticaNeue”
>> 	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmHeadersViewFontSize -float 13
>>
>> …into Terminal and hit Enter.
>>
>> When I restarted Mailmate, it was obviously ill. It took a second 
>> click on the dock icon to bring up the screen, and highlighting a 
>> message in the message list doesn’t bring up the message text.
>
> I could reproduce that and I've made sure it'll behave better when 
> this happens (outputting a warning and switching to the default font).
>
>> Clearly I’ve done something wrong here, but what can I do to 
>> reverse it?
>
> To reverse it:
>
> 	defaults delete com.freron.MailMate MmHeadersViewFontName
>
> To fix it:
>
> 	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmHeadersViewFontName -string 
> "HelveticaNeue"
>
> The problem was the use of curly double quotes.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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