Mail replies with super tiny font

I'm using the Mail software that comes with my macbook.
My setting for the fonts are
Mailbox font: Lucida Grande Size 11
Message list font: Lucida Grande Size 12
Message font: Lucida Grande Size 12
However, the font size of email replies from friends who are using MS Outlook are super tiny. And this happen only to those who use MS Outlook to reply to my emails. Why is that so? Is there anyway I can fix this?
Thank you.

I just started using Mail in a work environment and have the same problem--e-mails sent by others from PCs (usually using Outlook) appear tiny in mail. You can make them larger by changing the overly simplified "message font" in Preferences, but then all the mails you compose will be that same large font size.
Fortunately, others have had the same problem and there is a better solution--increase the minimum font size in Mail.
Go into Terminal and enter the instruction described here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=73652&query=mail%20font
I did it and it works like a charm. Can't help you if you want to switch back to whatever the minimum size was before though.

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