Fonts set in outbound mail appear differently in recipient's mailbox

I run all of my Mac Mail v4.2 (1078) in Verdana 11pt. I have a variety of elaborate signatures, also set to Verdana 11pt. When I author outbound mail, in Verdana 11pt, attach one of many signatures, and then view those emails on receiving computers, some appear as authored, but most show up with the signature in Verdana 11pt, but the body in a generic serif font (perhaps Times or similar). I cannot figure out how to keep the entire email in Verdana 11pt, on all receiving computers. Happy to attach PDF for a visual, but not sure that's possible in Apple forums?
Many thanks.

Mail > Preferences does not have a setting that determines the font seen at the other end. You must set that individually for each outgoing in the New Message pane. Also you may need to set it to something else than what is set in Mail > Preferences.
Some users find this behavior too cumbersome and prefer to use another email client which does have this feature, such as Entourage or Thunderbird.
It has been discussed here often and at length, e.g.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11416664&#11416664

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