Small font sizes in Evolution mail reading and compose windows in Ubuntu 11.10

[Fayer Michael]

Everything was OK in old Ubuntu e.g., 10.04. After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10, however, the font size in email reading window is quite small. The header font is bigger, but the text font is too small. And evo can't remember the size. Every time when reading emails I have to use Ctrl-+ to zoom in. This happens only for text emails. For html emails, it looks ok. Mail compose window also has small font (for composing text emails), and the text cursor (not mouse cursor) looks very strange: it has not same size as font (much bigger), and sometimes it looks not in the same line as text, but behaves in the same line!

I have converted mail format from mbox to maildr (?), because Evolution asks me to do so first time when I opened it after upgrading to new Ubuntu. I don't know if it is a reason. Another bug related to format conversion is, everytime when I sent an email out, it shows an error something like: "The mail has been successfully sent. But the post-processing had problem. It can't save draft in mbox://... It was saved in 'Sent'." And a "Dismiss" button is there too. (Maybe I should start another bug report)

My OS:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

My evolution:
$ apt-cache policy evolution
evolution:
  Installed: 3.1.92-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
     3.2.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://cn.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
 *** 3.1.92-0ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Oh, I saw an update of evo: 3.2.0-0ubuntu2 (actually hundreds or even thousands of upgrads! it should be a distribution upgrade). I will check if it fixes the bug.

[Fayer Michael (fayer012)]

The upgrade today (30 Sep) was big but not a distribution upgrade, since 'lsb_release -rd' gave same output. And the bug is still there with Evolution upgraded to 3.2.0-0ubuntu2 :-(

[AbdRahim (abdrahim-)]

Problem remains in 3.2.1

[AbdRahim (abdrahim-)]

There should be a way to set the font for the entire compoed message. Having to reset it on every line is crazy.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.