[MlMt] New to MailMate - Questions about outgoing mail fonts

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 4 Jan 2025, at 11:45, mailmate at businessdatasystems.co.nz wrote:

> On 4 Jan 2025, at 15:01, Johnny via mailmate wrote:
>
>> 1. I want all recipients to see my outgoing mails in Times New Roman 
>> font. If I can set a font size, even better. 
>
> 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.

I agree with the above. Reading emails should not feel like browsing web 
pages.

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.

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).

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.

As always: No time frame on the above. I just wanted to share my general 
position on HTML related issues :)

-- 
Benny
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