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Matt OS X · May 9, 2004, 05:28 PM

I've never seen a green highlight before in my .mac mail. (picture shown below).

Notice: I've hightlighted a email on another person and then the green highlited appeared right next to it- even it's different person, different email address, different subject words. Any idea why? Help. Thanks.

OwlBoy · May 9, 2004, 07:03 PM

Check your rules?

-Owl

Matt OS X · May 9, 2004, 08:15 PM

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
Check your rules?

-Owl

Yeah- I did checked it out.. Nothing there.. I began to wonder why this is highlighted in light green on that particuliar person? This never had happened before.... Hmmm...

Matt OS X · May 9, 2004, 11:50 PM

Anyone?? It's starting to bother me more now because I want to know why this light green highlighted on this person? Hmm..

Art Vandelay · May 10, 2004, 12:03 AM

Did you turn on thread highlighting?

Matt OS X · May 10, 2004, 09:29 AM

Originally posted by Art Vandelay:
Did you turn on thread highlighting?

What do you mean by that? I haven't touched or changed anything ever since.

Developer · May 10, 2004, 09:57 AM

Originally posted by Matt OS X:
What do you mean by that? I haven't touched or changed anything ever since.

He means Mail->Preferences->Viewing->Highlight related messages

Krusty · May 10, 2004, 10:09 AM

As Developer said. Its Here:

Just because you didn't change it doesn't mean someone else didn't OR that some bug happened where it "got set" somehow. Lots of my emails (especially ones with blank or generic sounding titles end up getting threaded together sometimes ... regardless of the sender)

Matt OS X · May 10, 2004, 11:01 AM

Okay here's what my looks like:

msuper69 · May 10, 2004, 11:51 AM

Slightly off topic but I would respectfully suggest turning off the option to display images and embedded objects in HTML messages as spammers use this to verify email addresses.

angelmb · May 10, 2004, 12:37 PM

Originally posted by msuper69:
Slightly off topic but I would respectfully suggest turning off the option to display images and embedded objects in HTML messages as spammers use this to verify email addresses.

Hum, great advice!!, my .mac is receiving so much spam lately.

Thanks.

Krusty · May 11, 2004, 01:48 AM

Originally posted by Matt OS X:
Okay here's what my looks like:

Alright, I tinkered with mail Preferences-->Rules and discovered something. Old messages will retain any old rules unless you manually change them. For example: I had one account set to highlight the background pink. I changed the rule so that they would now highlight yellow. ALL of the old messages retained the pink background but the new ones came in with the new yellow background. To change the old messages to reflect the new rule, I had to select the message and right click (cntrl-click) and choose "Apply Rules" after which the old message then got the new yellow background. Try doing that with your green message ... it may have been subject to a different rule when it came in and just needs to be updated.

Interestingly, I don't think this is a bug. I could see changing such a rule, say, once per month so you could have a quick visual indication of which account a message came to AND approximately when.

NY152 · May 11, 2004, 05:03 AM

Originally posted by msuper69:
Slightly off topic but I would respectfully suggest turning off the option to display images and embedded objects in HTML messages as spammers use this to verify email addresses.

Would you then have the option of seeing the HTML and images on a message by message basis?

msuper69 · May 11, 2004, 06:02 AM

Originally posted by NY152:
Would you then have the option of seeing the HTML and images on a message by message basis?

Yes. There is a "load images" button.

Matt OS X · May 11, 2004, 09:06 AM

Originally posted by Krusty:
Alright, I tinkered with mail Preferences-->Rules and discovered something. Old messages will retain any old rules unless you manually change them. For example: I had one account set to highlight the background pink. I changed the rule so that they would now highlight yellow. ALL of the old messages retained the pink background but the new ones came in with the new yellow background. To change the old messages to reflect the new rule, I had to select the message and right click (cntrl-click) and choose "Apply Rules" after which the old message then got the new yellow background. Try doing that with your green message ... it may have been subject to a different rule when it came in and just needs to be updated.

Interestingly, I don't think this is a bug. I could see changing such a rule, say, once per month so you could have a quick visual indication of which account a message came to AND approximately when.

Interestingly, it worked when I clicked on "Apply Rules" just like what you said... Weird... alright thanks for the help!!!

stoneage · May 12, 2004, 06:09 AM

On and off subject. JunkMatcher is a great spam filter that works with Mail.app. I wondered why pink messages showed up and then quickly disappeared into the Trash. The first one that came up was actually an Apple promo!! Now I know how to change the color or eliminate it. Although, it is so sweet to see that stuff go away right before your eyes. If you don't have this freeware, try it.

Krusty · May 13, 2004, 07:03 AM

Originally posted by Matt OS X:
Interestingly, it worked when I clicked on "Apply Rules" just like what you said... Weird... alright thanks for the help!!!

I am l77t, I am not teh sux0r!!11!!!

JKT · May 13, 2004, 07:10 AM

FWIW, you don't have to change them individually, just select them all and then "Apply Rules" and it'll update all messages at once.