From: Tony Williams 

Robert Comer wrote:
>> Why won't Thunderbird let you set the color and and bold & italic for
>> plain text fonts??
>
> I don't know, but when using plain text, the readers of your messages are
> only going to get plain text in whatever font they have as default.
>

True, but Thunderbird can display plain text as *bold*, /italic/ or
_underlined_ when reading replies and quotebacks. I also have it set to
display different levels of quoting in different colours which is quite
nifty.

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Tony

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