At 12/30/97 02:10 PM , David Mayerlen wrote:
>Hi,
>
> Why does CC-Mail switch to a proportional font when reading email
>approximately greater than 20k. Plain text email with columns of numbers
>ends up looking jagged! (And Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Internet
>Mail) Netscape and pine (obviously) don't seem to have this problem.
>
> Can anyone think of a solution so that we can send out tables of numbers
>and ensure that the columns will all line up? We thought about using html
>but many email packages cannot read html properly.

The reason cc:Mail does this is because text files (which is what an email
message is to cc:Mail) larger than 20k are too big for its built-in
mailreader, so it opens a text "viewer" which uses proportional fonts. You
need to find out how to change the settings on that viewer.

HTH,
Philo


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