Thanks, Mark, that was what I thought that I might be missing :-)
Yes, Mail has Rules, found in Preferences/Rules. Ken could use Rules to
operate on messages meeting various criteria; one of those operations is to
give the message title a colour in the list.
Chris
On 3 Jun 2010, at 02:16, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
> It sounds to me like Ken has gmail get his email from his other
> accounts, and only his gmail account is set up in Apple Mail.
> Whatever email client that is acting as the aggregator, which in Ken's
> case is gmail and yours is Apple's Mail app, can generally keep track
> of multiple accounts and reply accordingly. However, since Ken is
> adding one more POP/IMAP transfer after the aggregation, that account
> information gets lost and everything looks as if it came from the same
> account. I don't think that Ken's problem is Apple Mail specific, and
> I would expect that all email clients would work the same given the
> same setup.
>
> In order for Ken to be able to preserve the account information, he
> would have to set gmail to leave the other accounts' mail on their
> respective servers and then set up Apple Mail to also have all email
> accounts in it. The drawback to this solution is that since gmail
> uses POP to get the other accounts' mail, changes made to the other
> accounts on Apple Mail will not be reflected in gmail.
>
> Another possibility is that a rule to sort email into different
> accounts based on the To address or some other information could be
> set up in Mail to get around the problem. Though I have an iPod
> Touch, I haven't used the Mail client much and I don't know if it has
> such capabilities.
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