[Gloucs] Type faces.

[Tom Llewelyn]

Geof

The simple answer to your question is the receiver usually determines the
typeface used.

In the beginning the was universally true since the SMTP protocol only
supported transmission of plain text messages.  However, once MIME
(multi-part internet message extensions) was introduced, different data
streams could be encapsulated in an email message, and so the email
attachment was born.

Nowadays, many mail clients default to HTML encoding for the message which
is sent as an inline MIME attachmennt to the message which allows the
sender to create more richly formatted text.  So basically, if you can do
it in a web page, you can do it in an email.

However, your client may well still allow you to override the font settings
of incoming HTML messages in the same way that most web browsers do.

You can trace the history of all this in the IETF RFCs.  Search for MIME in
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc-index.txt

HTH

Tom

On 23 November 2011 15:06, GEOFF BAGLEY <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I am playing with Debian Icedove.
>
> Who determines the received type font of a message,  the sender or
> the recipient?
>
> I am hoping to inclease the size and boldness of incoming mail.
>
> Geoff on wheels
>
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