[MlMt] Colors in mailbox menu

[Eric Sharakan]

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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