I've been using this "Styles.plist" based method to have my emails
colored (based on conditions I choose in specially crafted smart
mailboxes) for years, and it works great. I briefly played with the
contextual menu based mailbox colors, but not the "Use Color in Message
list" option, as I suspect that would interfere with my Styles.plist
settings.
The procedure is described by Benny in this MM ticket:
https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672-mailmate/tickets/204,
starting with Benny's message dated February 2nd, 2017.
-Eric
On 30 Oct 2022, at 10:42, Edward Thome wrote:
On 30 Oct 2022, at 8:51, aisrael wrote:
Regarding “Use Colour in Message List”, I see a different
behavior (I use v5898) : when I right-click on a maibox name
(whether real or smart), “Use Colour in Message List” is grayed.
I remember once I was able to change the color (can’t remember
how), but the only change was the color of the mailbox icon, all the
messages remained black (or white, depending…).
I would love to be able to change the color of the mails in the
Message list of any given mailbox. How can I do that?
“Use Colour in Message List” is grayed for me as well. I can still
get some kind of colorization to work through using both the Hidden
Preference command in Terminal:
defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmMessageColorsEnabled -bool YES
and through a file named “Styles.plist” located in
~/Library/Application\ Support/MailMate/
I don’t know if it is standard issue when MailMate starts up the
first time, or if I was playing around with things that I saw in the
*Hidden Preferences* portion of the MailMate Help. [When I ?need? to
procrastinate, I am a tinkerer.] What mine had in it is:
- - -
{ styles = (
{ type = keyword;
keyword = '\\Flagged';
color = "#00FF00";
fontStyle = "bold";
},
{ type = mailbox;
color = "#00FFFF";
uuid = 'INBOX';
fontStyle = "italic"; // boldAndItalic can also be used
},
{ /*disabled = ":true";*/
type = filter;
color = "#FF0000";
uuid = '0249F96D-9B86-452A-B34A-83D83B0125FE';
},
);
}
- - -
I just changed the first two blocks to:
- - -
{ type = keyword;
keyword = '\\Flagged';
color = “systemRedcolor”;
fontStyle = "bold";
},
{ type = mailbox;
color = "systemBlueColor";
uuid = 'INBOX';
fontStyle = "italic"; // boldAndItalic can also be used
},
- - -
and added
- - -
{ type = mailbox;
color = "systemGreenColor";
uuid = ‘ARCHIVE;
fontStyle = “regular”;
},
- - -
and the message listings in the Inbox are now all blue italic (upon
restart of MailMate), and the message listing of all flagged messages
(besides having the flag) are in bold red. The message listing of all
archived messages are in green, regular font. At first I wondered why
I would do that, but now I see why. If I look in a smart mailbox, I
can see by a glance the color of the message listing that some are
still in the Inbox and some are flagged and some have been archived.
I think that I will take the ‘italic’ off, because the mailbox now
looks to alarming, which means that I’ll have to procrastinate, and
start tinkering…and then maybe disable something about MailMate that
I need. ;-)
All the best,
Ed
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