On Mon, 2025-12-08 at 09:17 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Tim, I did change the font in the global font settings but it > make no difference to emails I compose, it doesn't use those settings, > or at least it doesn't appear to as for this email Thunderbird is > telling me it is using "Body Text" and "Variable Width". If I click on > "Variable Width" it gives me a list of fonts to select from which > doesn't include "monospace", as it looks like it is the same list as > provided in the html font settings, which is what is set as my preferred > mail method. Sending is set to "Auto" which should send the mail as > plain text when there is no formatting.
Admittedly I don't have the same version of Thunderbird as you, which may have something to do with it. It may be more pernickity about font selection. But when I set up my choices of fonts in the main settings, all of them are set to monospace (I could just as easily have picked Courier), and the message editor uses it. Even though the message editor says "body text" or "paragraph" with a "variable width" font, it's using my previously selected font (which happens to be a fixed width font). There are a variety of fixed width fonts, and I've mentioned a few before that were useful at being able to determine particular problem characters. You could see if one of them is selectable, instead. I don't actually use Thunderbird, it's just installed and left alone. Long ago I decided that Evolution was the least-worst email client I could find on Linux. I know that's not a great selection criteria. But trying out a variety, there's a number of things determining my choice: A usable three-pane main window (folders list, folder content list, message reader) some only give you through-the-keyhole glimpses at their contents because the GUI has been designed by a dunderhead. A text editor that's reasonable at handling what I type, and the quoting in replies (some were just awful at not being able to reflow a paragraph that you went back and edited in the middle). Being able to use un-wrapped text in sections (such as copying and pasting formatted plain text program output). A GUI that's not as slow as mollasses. Email account editors that aren't a complete bastard to configure. At one stage, PGP that wasn't a complete disaster area. Good message signature handling. Just to name a few. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
