If you want something a little more noticeable, do what New posted, excepted the middle column at the bottom, change to "of background" from "of text".
Alternatively, this information could have been found (though slightly lacking in details) from the Help menu of Mail.app, if you searched for "mail rules", about the 5th-6th result says this:
Colorizing Messages
Choose Preferences from the Mail menu, then click Rules. Add or edit a rule, then choose Set Color of Message as an Action. From the Color menu, choose Other and use the color picker to select a color.
2) Have new unread items in my inbox a different colour?
Cheers!
Your second question has me baffled.
What do you mean by 'new unread'?
You are aware that all unread mail is marked as such? If you mark all as read when you finish a mail reading session then 'new' unread will be the only ones marked as such.
Or perhaps you can combine the coloring rule suggested by New with a time limit i.e. unread and recieved within the last day?
Are you on dialup perhaps? It's just that the very concept of 'new unread' seems very strange to me unless you are recieving mail as big batches. My 'new unread' are just the unread mails at the top of the screen as I sort by arrival date.
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Originally posted by unremarkable
Is it possible to:
1) Change the line-style quoting to > quoting?
2) Have new unread items in my inbox a different colour?
Cheers!
1) don't know
2) make a simpel rule
Originally posted by unremarkable
Thank you for your informative answer.
answer 2 is perfectly good.
Alternatively, this information could have been found (though slightly lacking in details) from the Help menu of Mail.app, if you searched for "mail rules", about the 5th-6th result says this:
Colorizing Messages
Choose Preferences from the Mail menu, then click Rules. Add or edit a rule, then choose Set Color of Message as an Action. From the Color menu, choose Other and use the color picker to select a color.
Originally posted by unremarkable
Is it possible to:
1) Change the line-style quoting to > quoting?
2) Have new unread items in my inbox a different colour?
Cheers!
Your second question has me baffled.
What do you mean by 'new unread'?
You are aware that all unread mail is marked as such? If you mark all as read when you finish a mail reading session then 'new' unread will be the only ones marked as such.
Or perhaps you can combine the coloring rule suggested by New with a time limit i.e. unread and recieved within the last day?
Are you on dialup perhaps? It's just that the very concept of 'new unread' seems very strange to me unless you are recieving mail as big batches. My 'new unread' are just the unread mails at the top of the screen as I sort by arrival date.
there does not seem to be a "when read" action in the mail rules.
Also, yeah, perhaps just "unread" would have sufficed.