<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#333399"> Just going through my mails . . . . Thank you Pascal for the commentary.  I am somewhat wiser after the feedback and help I received. You ask how I like Thunderbird.  Now that I've had a good go at it, I have found some aspects I don't like too much.  Maybe just because it is different to what I'm used to and the way I like to work.  I am going to try Evolution one of these days and see how I feel about that. Regards Dave W Simon Pascal Klein wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1201604667.12312.13.camel@tross.drbl.sf.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:13 +1100, The Wassermans wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Okay, so now I have downloaded Thunderbird as recommended. I am trying to emulate some preferences I had in Outlook Express. ie, I want to have my outgoing mails in the font you see here - Comic Sans MS but I want to receive incoming mails in the format they were sent. I go into tools>options> etc but the font changes I make effect the display of incoming as well. I've been round and round the mulberry bush but can't seem to configure my preferences suitably. I have returned to OE to send this - to illustrate what I want. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This email came up in a discussion I had offline with a few friends and all of us agreed that plain text emails are just the way to go... and if you have to use HTML ideally don't specify the typeface besides serif or sans-serif. Finally, for the love of all that is good and holy, please refrain from using Comic Sans MS for *anything ever*, other than perhaps comics (for which there are better typefaces anyway). ^_^ The main reasons for not using HTML I think were outlined in the earlier emails, but they essentially comes down to two things. Firstly, security: it is possible to create malicious HTML code within emails (this is in fact more an issue for Outlook Express users since the product is quite poor regarding security) and it's larger and unnecessary. I can understand that some organisations desire styled HTML newsletter emails but that's about the extent of it. Besides this font issue (which I hope we've convinced you shouldn't be an issue...) how are you finding Thunderbird by the way? (I've never asked anyone who has just moved from Outlook Express to Thunderbird). Ta and toodles. -Pascal </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Seems simple but . . . . . . Dave W </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>