Apple mail message color?

[Zillion]

Hi, I just switched to Leopard from Windows :D

Small question on Apple Mail 3.2, if I change color in Preferences, Fonts & Colors, Message font, the color in the composing message remains black. How can I change the color?

thanks

[xUKHCx]

Format -> Show Colours. Either do it at the beginning or just select the text that you want to change.

[Zillion]

Thanks. So that means you can't automatically compose in an other color than black, without manually doing " Format -> Show Colours ".. hmm but the rest of Apple Mail I seem to like. I used Thunderbird for years.

[dannyg9]

Hi all, to add to this thread, is there a way to color code messages (highlight) I would really like color code my inbox! Any help would be great. i really don't want to move to thunderbird if I don't have to (though color coding or labeling is far easier! thanks, Dan

[clevin]

Hi all, to add to this thread, is there a way to color code messages (highlight) I would really like color code my inbox! Any help would be great. i really don't want to move to thunderbird if I don't have to (though color coding or labeling is far easier! thanks, Dan

the color label of mail.app, AFAIK, is done by setting up filters. I dont think its very useful that way.

See if anybody else has better solutions.

[jplan2008]

Hi all, to add to this thread, is there a way to color code messages (highlight) I would really like color code my inbox! Any help would be great. i really don't want to move to thunderbird if I don't have to (though color coding or labeling is far easier! thanks, Dan

1) You can set rules to automatically highlight certain messages a particular color (by sender, etc) -- Mail - preferences -rules

2) To highlight messages individually, select the message(s), then format - show colors (shortcut is command-shift-c), then select from the color wheel. (if you're not familiar with the color wheel, you can put a bunch colors down below in the small squares, so it's faster and more consistent)

(To change font of messages in inbox, it's format-show font, or command-t)

[dannyg9]

Thanks for the help At last I can get just a little more organized!