One thing Thunderbird and Mail.app can’t do
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Chris Landon emails with a reasonable request, something you don’t miss or even think about until someone else mentions it.
He points out one thing that Thunderbird and Mail.app can’t do, and that’s coloured mailboxes.
He writes:
Do you know if there’s such a plug-in, etc, for color coding a folder? I have over a hundred folders an it makes it difficult to get to a specific folder, quickly. I could have created more sub-folders than the bunch I already have, but this does not help my situation either.
Here’s an example (I was using Thunderbird at the time and it does not have it either)…
Would it also be difficult to write a plug-in for this?
I don’t know of a plugin that does this, nor do I know how difficult it would be to code, but my hunch is a lot of people would use it.
Tags: Apple Mail, colours, labels, mail.app, mailboxes, Mozilla, plugin, thunderbird
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