Is there a way to set the default zoom level for the Mail app?

[chsn]

My 2014 13'' MBP Pro is running Big Sur. So far everything is still working pretty smoothly, except that when I connect the MBP to a large 27'' display, the size of the font in the Mail app is so small that it becomes a pain to read email content in such small fonts. I know I can use CMD+/- to adjust the zoom level. Let's say I increase the zoom level when I read the current email, when I switch to the next email, the zoom level is reset.


For browsers like chrome or firefox, there is always an option to specify a default zoom level for every page. Is there a similar option for mac's Mail app?

Thanks

 

[galad]

Check the app settings.

 

[chsn]

Check the app settings.

Checked that, none of the options work on the email body (content).

 

[Slartibart]

Change the font and/or size of the message font. This works for text messages. Otherwise, e.g. the sender uses a certain font available on your system, it won’t.

 

[chsn]

Change the font and/or size of the message font. This works for text messages. Otherwise, e.g. the sender uses a certain font available on your system, it won’t.

But this has no effect on the email with both text and image in the body. For example, it does not work on the email sent from Apple itself

 

[MacGizmo]

Is there a similar option for mac's Mail app?

No, there is not. And there likely never will be. And I feel your pain because I have a 34" 5K display and moderate-at-best eyesight.

Apple has locked down Mail and Safari with regard to extensions and add-ons. Not only do developers now have to pay Apple to create these extensions, but they have to code a regular app to then inject the app's features into Mail and/or Safari.

And then after all that work, they have to HOPE that Apple grants them the privilege of allowing it in the App Store because you can no longer just distribute a Mail or Safari extension freely on your own website the way you used to.

THEN you have to hope that people are actually willing to pay for the little extensions/add-on because, after all, Apple made it such a pain to create it that you're no longer willing to just give it away.