Hi Pierre,
Given your experience, I can see this working if for example, you move
message within MailMate only. I **usually** move them that way, but like
not always to the Archive Mailbox per account. Also this not a “Smart
Mailbox”.
So it doesn’t seem to be worthwhile trying, unless there is a rule to
first move a message to a temporary mailbox, then apply the setting(s)
desired, E.G. color, then move it back to the original place. It may get
the setting wiped out at that point anyway.
So, in short while it’s nice to colorize the email by a color code
similar to what was applied to the icon of a standard mailbox (which
still works, BTW), but no longer apparently, to the message contents
itself.
Mail does seem to allow the contents to be colored - both the background
and characters when placed in the spam folders. How do I know this, you
may ask? SpamSieve uses the techniques of coloration to apply it to
aspects of the email (subject) IN THE MESSAGE LIST. That coloration is
NOT reflected in the same message and the same folder in MM however.
Just giving some background for your issue. Frankly, the coloration
mentioned here is not of great enough interest to pursue it further for
me. Seems like it could be done, but don’t know the reasoning not the
the issues. Just providing some hints for your background study. Good
Luck.
Respectfully,
Henry Seiden
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On 8 Nov 2023, at 13:02, Pierre Igot wrote:
Hi,
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, I have been told by Benny that I
need to use smart mailboxes to apply colours to messages in a combined
message list.
My problem is that I can only see doing this in a practical fashion by
using rules to automatically move incoming messages to specific
(coloured) mailboxes and then by using a smart mailbox to combine the
contents of these various coloured mailboxes into a single message
list, with each message retaining the colour of its parent mailbox.
HOWEVER, this only works if my rules for moving incoming messages to
specific mailboxes works reliably for all messages. But I am finding
that it doesn’t work reliably. Sometimes incoming messages stay in
the inbox even though they do meet the criteria of the rule that is
supposed to move them.
My impression is that this might be because the move action only works
when messages actually “arrive” in the inbox, and I am assuming
that this “arriving” state is not always detected because incoming
messages might arrive in my inbox during a time when MailMate is NOT
checking for new mail and one of my other devices (iPad, iPhone) IS
checking for new mail, so that the arrival of these messages is not
detected by MailMate. (I can “force” MailMate to move these missed
messages to their destination by manually moving them to another box
and then back to the inbox, but obviously I cannot keep doing this
every time MM misses one.)
Is that really what’s going on? Or is there another reason why
sometimes incoming messages are NOT moved to their respective
mailboxes even though they do meet the criteria of the rule that is
supposed to move them?
If my theory is correct, how can I ensure that incoming messages are
ALWAYS moved from the inbox to their destination mailbox reliably,
regardless of whether they “arrive” first on my iPhone or iPad
before showing up in MailMate on my Mac?
Apologies if I am misunderstanding something obvious.
Pierre
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