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Colorize emails by contact group in Mail.app
Authored by: Mattherat on Jul 20, '05 03:02:52AM
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)

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