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The sadness of living in a black and white Mail world
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Dec 15, 2003, 09:51 AM
 
Help.

For my business its crucial to have colorful emails but nobody receiving emails from Mail can see the colors I write in.

Can anyone please suggest how to set up
Mail so others can see text written in colors?

Its a bummer when the world is just black and white . . .
Standard Rev B 17" Powerbook | OS X 10.3.2 | Xbench test result 121.67 | Wacom Intuous 2 tablet | Dr. Bott TiCase 17 | iPod 40G
     
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Dec 15, 2003, 10:02 AM
 
Originally posted by hikouka:
Help.

For my business its crucial to have colorful emails but nobody receiving emails from Mail can see the colors I write in.

Can anyone please suggest how to set up
Mail so others can see text written in colors?

Its a bummer when the world is just black and white . . .
GyazMail? Entourage?

Mail.app uses rich text to mark up messages. Those colors can only be seen by other mail.app users. If you want colors you need a client that sends HTML mails.

And don't send me a mail, I don't want a bunch of colorful bloated HTML mail crap. What business are you in that requires colorful mails? Hello Kitty product sales?
     
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Dec 15, 2003, 10:36 AM
 
GyazMail? Entourage?

Mail.app uses rich text to mark up messages. Those colors can only be seen by other mail.app users. If you want colors you need a client that sends HTML mails.

What business are you in that requires colorful mails? Hello Kitty product sales?
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(hahaha) Well kind of I guess.
You see here in Japan I've built up my own Delivery English Service where I visit affluent Japanese and teach them one on one or in small groups in the luxury of their homes, offices and shrines – I kid you not.

So when the students send in their emails I correct them, day after day after day, in a variety of colors -
red - completely wrong - what planet are you from,
orange - understandable but strange - pull your head in,
yellow - ok but unnatural,
green - correct English to use in place of your weirdness - to trick us into thinking your a native speaker,
blue - cool slang to use in place of your weirdness - to blow the socks off peace loving Americans the next time you launch a surprise attack

Groan. Am I really gonna have to change email programs to spread my little rainbows?

Nobody knows a magic way to get Mail to join the party and send out colorful text to other programs like a good little Samurai?
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