On Friday 23 January 2015 19:25:04 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> KMail on TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy, all fully updated.
>
> Because my husband had an eye operation today I wanted to enlarge
> everything in KMail for him.  I cannot enlarge the text in the message
> body.  After about ten tries the font changed from serif to sans-serif, but
> that is all. When I change the message body setting, the headers change, be
> they long or short - but he doesn't want to read those.  The text of the
> email remains stubbornly tiny.
>
> The date in the message list also fails to change font.  The rest changes!
>
> I have tried to have everything fully updated, but am getting:
>
> <normal updating>
> Err http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net wheezy Release.gpg
>   Could not connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:80
> (108.166.152.51), connection timed out
> Fetched 935 kB in 2min 0s (7,762 B/s)
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/slavek-banko/axis/ubuntu/dists/w
>heezy/Release.gpg: Could not connect to
> ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:80 (108.166.152.51), connection timed
> out
> W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
> <continue normal updating>

Since the server came back on line the problem has resolved itself.  
Presumably some bug tracked/update applied?  Anyhow, thanks guys!  Great!

Lisi