Messages sent to me by others display with reasonably large font sizes without my having to intervene.įirst by going to Thunderbird/Preferences/General, where one sets the desired font size, then clicking on “Advanced”, that displays the whole setup, including the change I just made to the font size, then clicking “OK”.Īfter that, back to writing a test email, back to getting tiny letters as if I had done nothing at all to change that. And more importantly, test messages I have sent to myself display in the same tiny letters when received, even if I used Command+ to zoom in the text while writing them.īy the way: this is a problem when I write an email message. Of course, I can use “Command+” repeated times to get the size on display to change to what I need, but this is temporary, so it has to be done every time I start to write another email, and there is no earthly reason why this should be so. Except that after increasing the default tiny font size of the emails I write from 15 to 20 (so “15” is either not true, or it is a measure given not in points but in microns - or something like that) this has had no effect whatsoever, and the font when I write an email remains tiny. So I have switched to Thunderbird, that works fine, so far. Whether the problem was all on my side, the ISP side, or both, I would not know.
#How to change font size in thunderbird email upgrade
Before this upgrade, my mail client had been “Mail” for more than four years (since I got my first and present Mac) and I was very satisfied with it.īut after the upgrade it started to glitch, then stopped downloading recently received emails, then downloading of all of them at once after hours of doing nothing to get them.