With the new SmarterMail, the font size for the content of an incoming email is so tiny it's hard to read. I'm referring to the size of the text in the window when viewing an email, not the font size of buttons like Reply or the names of the folders on the left. I didn't find a way to increase the font size when displaying an email. Can this be changed?
I'm assuming you are looking at your email through the webmail interface. If that is the case, I'm afraid the font is really base off the default CSS settings on the application and the settings on your browsers. If you're having a hard time reading your Inbox, you may want to consider using an email client such as Outlook to read your email.
It turns out the main problem I'm having (when logged in to the webmail interface) are the plain text emails. The CSS class .ReadMailPlainText has a font-size of only 8pt. That's too small for email. It should be at least 12pt. I'll use Control+ or Command+ to bump up the font for everything in the browser. Thanks.
Has anyone found a resolve for this? Is there an easy way to edit the style sheet and increase the font size fo rthe .ReadMailPlainText class? This is super annoying, and Id rather not increase the size of the entire app just to increase the size of the default font size for plain text emails. http://puu.sh/b6Aet/77cd763797.png John
I found a solution for now... I edited the ~/Main/frmMessage.aspx file in the SmarterMail website folder and inserted a CSS hack into the page and it works fine. Not elegant, but it works... <style type="text/css">.ReadMailPlainText{font-size: 12pt !important;}</style> http://puu.sh/b6B7O/bd834e6731.png
Very cool. Where did you find the SmarterMail website folder? I didn't see it in the Hosting Control Panel or my site folders.
Sorry but I don't understand. John wrote that he was able to change the CSS on the SmarterMail installation for his web site/app. John, is this correct? Is that what the screenshot shows? Are you a DiscountASP.net customer or staff?
Everyone who works here has the DiscountASP.NET Staff tag under their name. John may not be a customer either, I suspect he found the thread via a Google search and is talking about hacking his own SmarterMail installation. Depending on your browser, you can change the css temporarily for any site you are visiting, but I don't think it's something you'd want to mess with every time you want to log in to webmail.
There's a semi-reasonable client side fix up solution for this problem - the stylish extension / plugin for chrome and firefox is one css tweaker that I play with that can resolve this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ Here's my 100% successful attempt at completely destroying the look and feel of this forum in firefox (temporarily and just for me!): Code: @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document domain("community.discountasp.net") { body, .pageContent, .message .messageContent { background-color: black !important; color: white !important; } } It ends up looking horribly as per the attached. Ok it's a very good example of my very poor design skills but you get the idea
Thanks Joe and MJP. I use Chrome. I just found an easy way to solve the problem without installing a plugin. In Chrome, go to Settings -> Show advanced settings -> Web Content -> Customize Fonts. At the bottom is Minimum Font Size. I changed it from 8 to 12 and it works perfect for SmarterMail and all websites I visit. No more squinting! Yeah.
