Ralph Shumaker wrote:
As I go from one (plain text) message to the next, Thunderbird
sometimes displays one message (or a string of them) with a nice
font. Others are displayed in a freakish font that is barely
readable. Increasing the font size helps the bad one from about 50%
ease of readability to about 90%. The other one just becomes more
pleasant, but a have to page down more.
Can anyone tell me why Thunderbird is doing this? I don't really want
to select a default font that will over ride fonts in formatted
messages. But why is Thunderbird flip flopping between two different
fonts for *unformatted* messages?
Going back and forth between some of the emails, and noticing that all
emails seemingly were consistently shown with either the good font or
the bad one, I decided to investigate further.
Having been away from my email for about a month, and having just gone
through the email awaiting me, I had over 2,000 emails in my Trash
folder. None of those are marked, so I went through and marked each one
that show the horrible font. I was surprised that it was fewer than I
expected. And I *do* see some trends:
It seems that it originates with only emails from a few individuals:
jim
DJA
Brad Beyenhof
David De Lucca
Jean Bréfort
Louis Luangkesorn
philip
Phil Karn
Emails from these individuals, some show the bad font, some do not.
Emails from other individuals (including myself) which display the bad
font are always quoting emails from these fellows that show the bad
font. But not always. Sometimes, even though others quote from emails
with the bad font, their replies go back to showing the good font.
Some quoting keeps the bad font surviving several generations.
jim originated many threads. Some of them display with the bad font.
One thread in particular has every message in the thread (except for the
final one) showing the bad font. Overall, most of jim's messages
display with the good font.
Probably half of DJA's message display with the bad font (at least of
the ones in my Trash folder -- a decent number of messages from the
list, I keep, perhaps 5%).
Tracy's messages normally did not show the bad font unless he was
quoting from one of the fellows listed above, yet one message that he
forwarded (effectively beginning the thread) showed up displaying the
bad font.
I guess now I just need to see if I can find the common element. (I had
probably ought to turn off automatic deletion of old messages in the
Trash folder until I finish my forensics. :) )
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Ralph
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