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10.5: Modify the appearance of certain Mail stationery
Authored by: Morwen on Oct 25, '07 08:54:49AM

How do these emails look to users on other operating systems, Windows etc? I know when I get stationary emails from friends using Outlook in Windows, neither Mail.app or Entourage display them quite right for me.



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10.5: Modify the appearance of certain Mail stationery
Authored by: bkemper on Oct 25, '07 09:29:59AM

I'd like to know that too. In the current Mail.app, setting the default display font only changes how your outgoing mail looks to you, and Outlook users see it in Times Roman. Even changing it via the font panel often doesn't work, if you are trying to change it to the same font as you have set for the default. I was hoping that with Mail templates, we would at last have font defaults in the html of the message that would carry across to Outlook users.

I also would like to know what the messages look like after someone replies to it. I sometimes get back replies in which all the lines of text have large spaces between them, and there is no way to fix it. Maybe Mail and Outlook use different default CSS, or different HTML structures. Sometimes the size of the font changes drastically too (probably being specified in two different ways). Hopefully, with custom authored templates (I hoping they can be custom authored), these kind of problems can be overcome easier than they are now.



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10.5: Modify the appearance of certain Mail stationery
Authored by: BrentT on Oct 25, '07 12:32:28PM
I believe the page will appear fine in any mail browser that can display html. If not the page will just display the text. MacWorld Mail first look

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10.5: Modify the appearance of certain Mail stationery
Authored by: bkemper on Oct 26, '07 07:32:49AM

I hope you are right, but I'll believe it when I see it. The Tiger Mail.app has HTMl too, but it's default font information does not seem to carry over into Outlook, and also gets its text margins and line spacing messed up when replying or being replied to.



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