[bdmesq]

If one clicks on mail [in the dock] and then clicks on g-mail at the left site of the screen [with a right click!] a menu opens where one can edit "g-mail"
click then: fonts and colors ...........and strange enough the only thing which oen seems not be able to do,is changing the size of the text of an opened mail .
All other fonts are changeable, but the size of the font of the opened mail [the text to read] can't be changed, Very strange!!!
Anybody who found a method how to do this??

[Spheric Harlot]

The view preferences are exactly where they should be: In the menu "Mail" --> "Preferences".

You use the formatting options (including text formatting) when you're actually creating text.

[bdmesq]

openening the fonts [and colors[ as suggested gives the choice to change 5 fonts:
mailbox......messagelist.......message.......note. ......fix width
changing any of these does not change the text size of an opened mail.the size of mailbox font etc are changable.
any further ideas? thanks

[Spheric Harlot]

As you note, Mail preferences include a preference for "Message font".

Make that 18 point Dragonfly and drive yourself insane.

[bdmesq]

your answer:

As you note, Mail preferences include a preference for "Message font". .............CLEAR

Make that 18 point Dragonfly and drive yourself insane...............18 NO PROBLEM TO CHANGE TO 18
DRAGONFLY?? THERE IS NOT SUCH A FONT........
OR IS THIS AN AMERICAN IDIOM/JOKE ? [I AM NOT A NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER]

drive yourself insane..........................??

[Spheric Harlot]

Choose whatever font you wish, and it will do EXACTLY what you ask.


the Dragonfly bit was a joke.
There is a font called Dragonfly - you just don't have it installed. It's fairly well-known. Here is what it looks like:


Setting all e-mails to display in 18-point Dragonfly is sure to drive you insane over time…

[bdmesq]

thanks for the answer and even the joke[ a bit computer-wiser now]
Really the font of the text of an opened e-mail in “mail"does not change at all whatever I do [i tried to increase in turn all the available font options!] so one of them should have worked at least[but it did not]
Possibly then a “little bug” in my computer definitions!?!
I also wrote about the dragging of text to the subject line of “mail” which seems not possible and some of the community claimed that they managed [and some others also could not] Another “bug”?
thanks for your efforts

[-Q-]

Originally Posted by bdmesq 

Possibly then a “little bug” in my computer definitions!?!

Not likely. I'd imagine the email you're trying to change has had its own formatting applied and Mail will not override those type of messages with your settings.