Need larger font in Mail message list....

Hi-I am using a MacBook Pro running ML. I have 3 columns: my mailboxes on the left, in the middle is the list of messages and on the right is the preview of the messages. I would to increase the font of the middle one. Also like to increase the icons in the header, i.e., Unread, Junk, etc. I have increased the size in Preferences to 36 but it doesn't increase the size of the middle column nor the icons. Any way to do this without using Terminal? Thanks for any help for this MeMaw.

There are ways to avoid the Terminal, but the Terminal command is only a single line, cut'n'paste:
defaults write com.apple.mail RichMessageList -bool FALSE
This thread gives a full discussion of this solution and its clumsier alternatives:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3194217?start=60&tstart=0

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