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MailMate styles outgoing messages with font-family:sans-serif

#1654

Hi there!

I notice that the HTML sections of messages sent with MailMate are styled with font-family:sans-serif. In Apple Mail, this makes them render in Helvetica rather than in my default message-viewing font. Apple Mail and Gmail don't add any such styling. I find this behavior quite surprising, given that not styling emails is one of the philosophical cornerstones of MailMate. Is there any way to remove this styling?

Thanks!

Yogananda

Reported by Yogananda · January 22nd, 2017 @ 11:19 PM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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  1. benny
    benny

    The no-styling approach of MailMate did not work well since this made MailMate emails look ugly in too many other email clients (and then in MailMate after a reply was generated). My strategy is now to, by default, try to use what works best for most people, but this is incredibly tricky. I introduced sans-serif in an attempt to work around an issue with Outlook email clients which default to a (what users perceive) as a very ugly font. I got a lot of (negative) feedback on that.

    But your report shows that this is not a perfect solution (and I guess the same problem must exist for Apple Mail or Gmail unless they somehow trigger Outlook to behave differently).

    The font is currently hardcoded in the so-called mmTheme files. You can make your own file to get around this, but it's probably better if we find a solution which is easier and maybe even better default behavior -- if possible.

    (Testing is very difficult. The next time I work on this then I should probably use something like https://litmus.com.)

    The “quick” solution might just be a preference to control the font-family setting in any theme, but I would like to find something better than that.

    January 23rd, 2017 @ 10:06 AM

  2. Yogananda
    Yogananda

    Hmm, yes I see. I guess I won't hold out hope for a quick resolution, but thanks for the quick reply!

    January 23rd, 2017 @ 09:47 PM

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