[ale] Changing Thunderbird 1.5 font color

[Daniel Howard]

Jim wrote:
> Daniel Howard wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 07:10 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>  
>>> I just installed Thunderbird 1.5.  It has some nice features, but my 
>>> old eyes have trouble reading light gray on a white background.  I 
>>> can't seem to find a way to make the text of received messages 
>>> darker.  Has anyone unlocked the secret?
>>>     
>>
>> edit->preferences->display has options on forwarded text font color (and
>> for html) but no general text color for just normal messaging. What does
>> work is to change from fixed to variable font. It still leaves the
>> attached signature block in gray but at least the message body is in
>> black.
>>
>> Actually in Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, you can change it via
>> tools > options > display > formatting
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>   
> Now that's interesting.  My 1.5.0.4 doesn't have an "options" under 
> tools.  Do you have some special plugin?
> Thanks,

Not that I know of.  I'm currently emailing from my Windoz laptop with 
Thunderbird for Windows, maybe the Linux and Windows versions are different?

Daniel