On 01-Feb-2008, David Gerard wrote:
On 01/02/2008, Noah Slater nslater@bytesexual.org wrote:
You could switch to a different mail client, such as mutt, which provides the functionality of highlighting emails in colour. I believe Thunderbird and Outlook offer the same.
I moved *from* Mutt *to* Gmail.
That's unfortunate, because (if I understand rightly) gmail offers very little control over how messages are processed.
If I'm wrong, and gmail *does* offer a lot of control, then please use that control to control your mail the way you're wanting to do.
(I love replies to feature requests that say "You don't actually want to do what you want to do, you want to do what *I* do.")
Notice that it is you asking for *everyone's* mail from this list to be affected, just to suit the way *you* want it to appear.
That's far better solved by presentation in *your* mail client, because doing so doesn't impose anything on anyone else. The messages already contain exactly the right information to do so: a field that uniquely identifies the list from which the message came.