There's no need to move messages for this coloring feature to work.
IIRC, all you need to do is create smart mailboxes containing the
conditions you want for coloring the messages. Then, use the
Mailbox->Color submenu to choose a color for that mailbox, and also
select "Use Color in Message List". Your chosen color will be applied
not only to the messages in your smart mailbox, but also to the original
messages, wherever they reside.
-Eric
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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