Comments on: Labels for Apple’s Mail Application

By: Arne

Arne — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:18:17 +0000

just wanna thank you. I’m so happy now!
best wishes from Germany, have a nice Christmas.

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:11:26 +0000

Thanks for the script it was just what I was looking for. Thanks also to Adam for the Shift+Apple+C Trick - great!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:34:30 +0000

Hi Pete. You may want to check out the MailTags plugin to get added functionality. Also, Thunderbird is a great email client that probably is a closer match to Eudora.

By: Pete M

Pete M — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:44:30 +0000

Can I create a column in Mail and sort by your labels?

Sounds great, but, that’s my big priority (moving from Eudora).

I am also recently returned to Apple so am a bit gun shy.

Many thanks.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:52:44 +0000

Jim - That’s a great find. I do believe it’s new.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:08:55 +0000

Does anyone know how to change the color of the background of emails (i.e. the “paper”) like you can in Eudora or Thunderbird?

Thanks!

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:10:10 +0000

Have you noticed that Mail in Leopard has a sort by color option? See the View->Sort by menu.

I don’t remember if this was in the earlier versions…

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:09:43 +0000

You can also select the email and hit Apple + Shift + C to bring up the colour picker window and allocate a colour to label the email.

By: Mark David Gerson

Mark David Gerson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:51:45 +0000

Just did a standard Leopard install and all my labels are also intact.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:04:01 +0000

I did an archive and install with Leopard and the labels stuck around.

By: Mark David Gerson

Mark David Gerson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:52:57 +0000

I’m using your Mail script in Tiger and loving it. What will happen to the script and to mail that’s already color-labelled when I upgrade to Leopard?

By: Memoria de Acceso Aleatorio » Mail: Marcar mensajes individuales con un color

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:15:09 +0000

[...] Después de haber encontrado este truco, he buscado quién más podría haberlo documentado, y el mejor resultado es de Macworld online, en su artículo titulado Colorize Mail messages. Sin embargo, hay otro truco interesante, y es el uso de AppleScript, más el menú de Scripts, para colorear mensajes particulares, tal y como describen en TwisterMC, en su entrada Labels for Apple’s Mail Application. [...]

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:05:51 +0000

Thanks, Gluefreak!

By: Gluefreak

Gluefreak — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:34:14 +0000

You can color individual messages by using the colors palette. Select message, select color, you’re done. It’s very easy. See here:

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/05/mailcolor/index.php

You can also write rules that apply colors.

By: Diedrich

Diedrich — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:38:16 +0000

Cool!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:33:25 +0000

So, I gather there is no way for the common man to perform such shenanigans? Rats!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:54:53 +0000

Jonathan - Apple doesn’t send out labels with a message. Rather every Mail app has a rule pre-installed to change the color of the background of messages from Apple.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:37:31 +0000

HI, Very nice! Is there a way to label the emails you send to have color when they show up in someone else’s mailbox? Apple does this for all their email ads!

Thanks!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:41:03 +0000

Thanks everyman!!

By: everyman

everyman — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:48:35 +0000

For QuickSilver integration, go to the preferences in QS, then click on catalog at the top of the window. Go to Scripts and make sure either the User or All Users is checked, depending on if you place the scripts in the /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts folder, or ~/Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts. Hit the refresh symbol at the bottom of the window (twisted arrow thing).

Now you can highlight a message, activate QS and type “red”, and run the script when it shows up. It might not be the first item listed in the search result, so arrow down until you find it.