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Improvements to plain text messages

A little background to be clear what I am referring to here... When you send an HTML message, you can change the font style and size and your recipient sees the message with this stylistic formatting. When you send a plain text message, there is no formatting, you don't know what font the recipient is viewing your message in. This feature request concerns only the local display of plain text messages. I would like to be able to set the local display font style for plain text messages separately from HTML messages. Both composing and reading messages. When I compose plain text messages, I need them to be in a fixed width font. But I do not want a fixed with default font for HTML messages. Similar when I read plain text messages, I want to view them in a fixed width font. I do not want the default HTML font to be fixed with however. 1) It's visually different from HTML mode when I type, 2) it's easy to line up characters vertically, 3) some (not all) other plain text mail programs also use a fixed-width font to display plain text messages. When you set plain text mode in eM, nothing changes in the display of the message you are composing. This makes it visually impossible to know if you are in plain text mode or not. On the composing side, I suggest splitting "Menu > Settings > Mail > Compose > Preferred Style" into 2: "Default style for HTML messages" and "Default style for plain text messages". By default, you could set both of these to the same as you have today but the user could change them. On the receiving side, I suggest splitting Menu > Settings > Mail > Read > Preferred Style" into 2 options: "Default style for HTML messages" and "Default style for plain text messages". By default, you could set both of these to the same as you have today but the user could change them. This would allow people who prefer reading and composing plain text messages in a fixed-width font to do so without affecting the current functionality of people who don't care about this.