Mail fonts

Ok, I'm curious; does mail still not let you do something as simple as changing the color of your default font? I was hoping that would come about in 10.5.2.
I'm just surprised that Mac's don't have an extremely simple thing to do that, instead of having to do the change for every single message.

This seems to be a common problem. I upgraded to MacBook Pro and Leopard and about a third of my incoming mail messages appeared with a strange font and my Titles were in fractions. The culprits were 2 fonts: Helvetica Fractions and Phonetics. As soon as I turned them off the problem was solved. By the way, I couldn't select different fonts in Mail Preferences because it was locked on the Appearance window and wouldn't let me make a change.
HOWEVER, the BIG issue to me was that twice I spoke to Apple Care representatives and both times I was told to reinstall my system. I naively did it the first time and had hours of reestablishing networks, printers, etc. The second time I was really angry. Apparently this issue is not unique to me and I am appalled that Apple technicians were not aware of it.
Yeah, I should have checked the forum but what am I paying so much for APple Care if not to help out in a pinch.

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Shame on me for messing with fonts, but here we go.
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Screenshot:
Here's what I've tried:
- Wiping all user fonts, and replacing both system font folders with known good copies.
- Disabled all plugins and bundles.
- On the same computer, swtiched to a "test" account which is a completely defaulted new user account and was created before this problem. Mail worked fine with new account and imported com.apple.mail.
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- Replaced Mail itself with a copy from another Mac.
- Trashed com.apple.mail (after backing it up)
- Ported com.apple.mail to another Mac with Mail and worked fine.
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The affected font is probably Helvetica. Take a look at the following article:
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http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2443/bild1ni2.png

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I have also, as everybody I think this issue.
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Well, I made my own service with automator (for mail.app, w/o entry) with such code below and assign it to hot key ^R (ctrl R):
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If somebody want to change it, improve it, no problem.
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tell application "Mail"
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end tell
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end tell
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tell application "System Events"
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try
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