Emails sent from Thunderbird look different on Outlook. How can i fix this?

Okay guys. I’ve been using Thunderbird (2.0.21) for quite some time now and i’m very pleased with it (especially the spam filtering engine).

But i’ve got a problem when it comes to using it at the office.

The company is using Outlook 2003. Most of my clients are using Outlook 2003 also. And all emails that i’m sending using Thunderbird will look terribly on outlook (beginning with font and/or font sizes and ending with text alignment/indent.

Can i fix this somehow? Did anybody had this problem before?

I mean, right now, i’m saving the message prior to sending it, and then i’m looking at it via ‘Drafts’ folder to see if there are any differences. I’ve also noticed that sometimes (especially when i copy/paste text) even if select the whole text and set it to ‘smaller’ font size, there will still be text in the email that has a different size. This is very annoying. And worst of all this is very annoying for my clients.

Is there a way that i can make my sent emails look the same on an outlook 2003 email client? I’ve heard that outlook doesn’t fully respect the HTML standards, hence my differences appear. Can i force thunderbird to use the same style?

Thx