The font drop-down menu should allow the user to choose any font on the computer in composing a new HTML message instead of being restricted to the three currently provided with Mozilla.

This bug is a dup of 107877 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107877 ***

vrfy dup

I'm not sure this is entirely a duplicate. 107877 deals with a preference for setting a default font for outgoing messages. This bug is for the option to choose from any font installed on the computer when composing an e-mail or creating a web page in Composer.

*** Bug 137290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The font menu in the MailNews compose window needs to list all fonts on the computer for selection in an e-mail. (Or, provide a "Customize..." tool so that users can select local fonts from a dialog box to add to their font menu.) This is basically the same feature as 26288 but in a different component of Mozilla. The current font-family font chooser (with Helvetica-Arial, Times-Times New Roman, and Courier-Courier New) limits selection of fonts in outgoing messages. The font-family style could be kept (for more compatiblity; see my comments in bug 26288) but a preference should be made available for "use individual fonts" or "use font families". Either way, please make it possible to use local fonts in outgoing mail. This is related to 107877, which is for default fonts for outgoing messages. It is not a duplicate since this is for the compose window, not preferences or defaults.

This bug depends on bug 26288 (Composer having the ability to select fonts)

reassign to varada

Users migrating from Outlook Express will want this. Some of them if they don't find this feature will go back to OE. The mail compose window font selection tool needs to be easy enough for the average user, with probably the best way to do it just having a menu listing all fonts available in the system font folders. Composer can do it differently (with the font families) but Mail&News should be as simple as possible for the users. (The average computer beginner, who *hopefully* is using Mozilla :-), will want to get started with e-mail long before they will consider setting up a web page.) I understand that there are more important bugs to fix, but I think now that the 1.0 release is out and we're moving on to 1.1, these e-mail formatting issues should be addressed. bug 119593 bug 107877 bug 119594 bug 137451 bug 124506

This is a dup of bug 26288. When that gets fixed, this one will. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26288 ***

vrfy dup