Font problem sending from Mac Mail to PC users.

I'm using Mac Mail - as I wanted to do away with Entourage to bring everything under the Mac umbrella. Problem is now that I have switched app. whenever I send a mail to a PC user the font changes to Times. I've tried changing my default font from Arial, to Tahoma and Verdana (all commonly used fonts in Outlook & Entourage etc) but it always comes through as Times. I can however trick it by changing the font just before I send the mail and it then comes through as the specified font.

It's my one HUGE complaint about Mail and it is a
simple problem. Pre-Tiger when Mail used HTML
formatting, there was not problem. But the RTF
formatting is bollocks.
Pre-Tiger, Mail did not use html, it used .rtf. Tiger Mail now uses HTML. (Both are called "rich text" in Mail). But the "default" settings are for incomings, not outgoings. For outgoings you need to do it for each message with the Font Panel. And of course at the other end, the recipient has to be viewing html: If his mail client is set to read plain text, it will use his font preferences and not what you intended.
Best to send Apple some feedback on how you would prefer that it work:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

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