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Does Evolution email client have the ability to zoom in and out of the text in both the reader panel and the composer window?

I can only find this ability when you open an email in its own window - but not found in any other part of Evolution!

Here, and in Thunderbird (and Outlook for that matter), you can click either CTRL++ or CTRL+- to zoom in or out, and the big one is scrolling back and forth with the mouse wheel while holding the CTRL key to zoom in and out.

Any thoughts on why its not available in the rest of the windows?

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Yes, it does have such a feature, try this:

  1. Move the mouse pointer over the mail preview window
  2. hold down the Crtl key while scrolling with the mouse wheel

Now the text will be enlarged (scrolling-up) or made smaller (scrolling down). This does not work with message lists, just with the message preview.

Remark: Above assumes you have "focus-follows-mouse" activated. Without that, you might have to activate the preview by clicking into it. And Ctrl++/- works fine here as well for me – again, in the message preview only.

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  • Thank you! As noted above, I'm really looking for this ability in the 'compose new message' window...any thoughts on that?
    – DPSSpatial
    Aug 22, 2013 at 19:55
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    Unfortunately not, I've checked that as well and could not find any clue there. All that's left for things like that are little "desktop helper" like xmag or wmagnify IMHO.
    – Izzy
    Aug 22, 2013 at 22:16

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