[Users] Color for unread messages?

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Tue Mar 27 02:31:57 CEST 2012


On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:52:10 +0200
Michael Rasmussen <mir at miras.org> dijo:

>On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:28:02 -0700
>John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:23:16 -0400
>> Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> dijo:
>> 
>> >Hey there,
>> >
>> >John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> >
>> >> Claws Mail 3.8.0 on Fedora 16, x86_64, Xfce desktop.
>> >> 
>> >> I found how to set unread messages in the Inbox to bold, but can't
>> >> find any place to make them appear in a different color. Did I
>> >> fail to find the setting, or is it not possible?
>> >
>> > 1) Left-click the Configuration menu.
>> > 2) Choose Pre-processing... by left-clicking it.
>> > 3) Type Unread messages into the Name box.
>> > 4) Left-click the Define... button to the right of the Condition
>> > box. 5) Left-click the Match criteria selector.
>> > 6) Choose Flags by left-clicking it.
>> > 7) The Flag selectors should automatically say that Unread is set.
>> > If they don't, left-click them to choose those values. 8)
>> > Left-click the Add button. 9) Left-click the OK button.
>> >10) Left-click the Define... button to the right of the Action box.
>> >11) Left-click the Action selector (it should say Move by default).
>> >12) Choose Color label by left-clicking it.
>> >13) Left-click the Color selector (it should say None by default).
>> >14) Choose one of the colors by left-clicking it.
>> >15) Left-click the Add button.
>> >16) Left-click the OK button.
>> >17) Use the Up button if you want to move the rule up above another
>> >rule. 18) Click the OK button.
>> >
>> >Enjoy your colorful unread messages! (:
>> 
>> Great!
>> 
>> Except for one small problem: After reading a message it stays
>> colored. :(
>> 
>Use a post processing rule 
>Instead of:
>7) The Flag selectors should automatically say that Unread is set.
>use
>7) Set the Flag selectors to say that Unread is not-set.
>Instead of:
>14) Choose one of the colors by left-clicking it.
>use
>14) Choose none for the color.
>
>Then every time you leave a folder every message mark read will be
>colored black.

It works, but I have to leave the Inbox and come back to it in order to
see the color change back to black (none). Can it be set to change the
color as soon as I click on an unread message?



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