[MlMt] Colors in mailbox menu

[aisrael]

Irrespective of my efforts, I could not have the  "Use Color in Message 
list"  to be anything else than grayed. Using the Custom color I have 
been able to color the mailbox icon, but nothing else. So I turned to 
the "Styles.plist" approach, which works nicely.

So I am still wondering what is the purpose of the Mailbox->Color menu, 
unless of course I am doing something wrong, or misinterpreting its 
function.

Alain

On 30 Oct 2022, at 16:40, Eric Sharakan wrote:

> 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672-mailmate/tickets/204__;!!JFdNOqOXpB6UZW0!pN7jrFeSr5viSOkyITSfBm2diWfX5ZGRDsr2XLLY69PQ7aO01GkWSK7DJ3IhHhhF4dNifMD2s6vPT8IYnQ$ 
>  , 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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