Hi Rob,

Yes, if you are still using an older version of MailMate and relying this 
feature, you’ll be disappointed to hear that support for the Styles.plist was 
eliminated in versions more recent than r5964, which is the version (from 
several months ago) that I am still using right now. If you used rules and 
Styles.plist to colour your inbox messages based on IMAP tags and if you 
upgrade to a more recent release of MailMate, you’ll find that the messages 
still have their tags, but are no longer coloured based on the colour styles 
defined in that Styles.plist file.

I am personally very disappointed in this, because over the years I had built a 
whole system based on rules and IMAP tags, with rules assigning these tags 
based on various criteria. It seems to me that it should be pretty 
straightforward (but of course, I am not a developer) to offer, in the MailMate 
user interface, a way to (optionally) associate IMAP tags with colours for the 
message list. Alas, in spite of my repeated email queries to Benny about this, 
I have yet to hear back. So I am slowly starting to consider the possibility 
that this feature will never be added, and to explore how to use an alternate 
approach to achieve the same result, i.e. a unified mailbox with a list of new 
messages that are coloured not just based on the colour assigned to their 
parent account, but also based on IMAP tags assigned to them by my rules 
(regardless of their parent account).

The way to achieve this that I can see as a user is to automatically move 
incoming messages to specific mailboxes based on the same rule criteria as the 
ones I use to assign IMAP tags to them, with each mailbox assigned its own 
colour in MailMate and colouring its enclosed messages accordingly. Then I can 
create a smart mailbox that combines the contents of these various specific 
mailboxes and thus gives me a list of messages with different colours based on 
the specific mailbox that they are now part of.

But in order to achieve this, I need my rules to reliably move incoming 
messages to these specific mailboxes, which is where I am hitting a snag at 
this point. MOST of the time, the messages are automatically moved properly, 
but sometimes, even though I can tell that the rule “saw” the message (since it 
assigned the IMAP tag to it, which is the first action defined in the rule), 
the rule fails to move the message to the appropriate mailbox, and it leaves it 
in the inbox. And I don’t understand why and how to fix this.

Pierre

On 8 Nov 2023, at 14:19, Rob Russell wrote:

> On 9 Nov 2023, at 7:02, Pierre Igot wrote:
>
>> With the elimination in recent versions of MailMate of support for the 
>> “hidden” feature for colouring messages in the inbox message list using a 
>> file called Styles.plist,
>
> That's potentially disappointing. Do the recent versions have a direct 
> version of colouring?
>
> Rob


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