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Colorize emails by contact group in Mail.app
1. This isn't a very good hint. Making a rule to set the color of messages is a simple, built-in, documented feature, which anyone could quickly find themselves by simply looking at the options in the Rules preference pane. In fact, one of the default rules, "News From Apple", sets the background color to blue. This rule stands out because its background in the list is also blue.
2. You can change the background color and the text color by making two separate rules.
Colorize emails by contact group in Mail.app
agreed. what _would_ make this kinda cool though, is an applescript that would automatically do the color based on groups you've setup in AddressBook.
Set color by AddressBook Group
It is easy to set the color of an email from a member of a group in Address Book by setting up a rule: Sender is Member of Group, then selecting the group from the popup. This also works with Smart Groups. Pretty cool.
Set color by AddressBook Group
I know. That's exactly what this hint says.
Colorize emails by contact group in Mail.app
ref. 1: I know that it is not a very special hint, but even if things are documented, that doesn't mean that everybody finds them or thinks about the benefit you can get out of them. And in my case I was happy to find a way to copy the category colorizing feature like in Entourage which I found quite useful. Apart from that, I am pretty sure that you will find loads of hints here, which are also documented features...
Anyway, nobody forces you to read it or to comment it... ref. 2: Exactly this is what is not possible. If you had tried out before you comment, then you would have realized that setting the textcolor after the background color with a second rule, the change of the first rule will be undone. That is also the reason why you cannot set both colors in one rule. If you further look into the AppleScript dictionary of Mail.app you will find out that there is only one color rule which can either set text or background color (set through a boolean). Message->rule->color message (color)and Message->rule->highlight text using color (boolean)
Colorize emails by contact group in Mail.app
Well, maybe you're just a genious. I for one never thought of using the groups. I've been setting rules up based on individual email addresses. This group thing makes life a whole lot easier. Thanks you guys at MacOSXHints for the tip. Nice to know that someone understands that even though something may be documented, some of us have other things to attend to that prevent us from sitting and reading the program documentation from end to end. That's why you're here. To tell us little things we ourselves might have missed. Keep up the good work.
Colorize emails by contact group in Mail.app
I did the same with individual rules for sorting my Emails into folders. |
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