[MlMt] Highlighting message headers in mailing list digests

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 29 May 2025, at 0:29, Rob Russell via mailmate wrote:

> I've noticed that in mailing list digests (such as this mailing list produces) that if I am dark mode, each message has alternating background colouring...at least the headers do.

Well, it's not really alternating, but it looks like that because many/most emails have an HTML part which has a white background by default (MailMate still needs a feature to force these into dark mode when possible).

If you get a digest of plain-text-only emails then they would all have dark backgrounds.

> However, in Light mode, each message is not distinguished as clearly.

Which is because most emails contain HTML.

> Is this my configuration or am I adding something to Benny's long list of work?

If you select multiple messages then you'll see what MailMate could do for digests as well, that is, add some margin and maybe a border. Unfortunately, an embedded message does not quite work the same way as a regular message (internally) which means that I cannot just flip a switch. So, the “missing” feature is to improve how embedded messages are handled in the message view and then that would make it easier to also improve it visually.

-- 
Benny