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Asked: 2026-05-24T02:23:53+00:00

I am facing a situation where I need to process an incoming email which

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I am facing a situation where I need to process an incoming email which is in plain text format and then display the email as virtual plain text(Font Size =10.5 and Font type=Consolas) to the user.

My code till now

string Text = "<html><body><basefont size=3 font face= consolas>" + mailItem.HTMLBody + "</font></body></html>";
mailItem.HTMLBody = Text;
//Process the email and display

This works good, but during display this shows virtual plain text of font size 10.0 instead of needed 10.5. I tried changing the basefont size to 4,5 etc. this does not change the display in any way.

other options tried:

1.Adding a CSS stylesheet. This will not work good as most email clients don’t support it.

2.Adding a div tag to the code like this

string Text = "<html><div style=font-size:10.5px; font-face:consolas;>" + mailItem.HTMLBody + "</font></body></div></html>"

this also does not work.

My main objective is to display a virtual plain text email with Font Size 10.5 and font type Consolas to the user after the processing has been done.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your second approach seems to be allright – you just have a </font> and a </body> too much + you should change “font-face” to “font-family”.
    Also throw in double quotes – that will output one quote: 

    string Text = "<html><div style=""font-size:10.5px; font-family:Consolas;"">" + mailItem.HTMLBody + "</div></html>"
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