Can Subject Line Text Be Bolded, Italicized & Not Black?

So far as I know you're stuck with it.

srb

Hello Jane.

I don't recall ever recieving a message with a formatted text in the Subject line. I'm not sure but this may have more to do with message header standards.

I use Windows Outlook at work and it is not possible to format the Subject line with Outlook either and if it were possible, you can bet Microsoft would have included the option since HTML e-mail is one of the uglier things Microsoft has wrought upon the Internet IMO.

Jane,

according to the specifications of e-mail, all the message headers are plain text only - you therefore cannot add any formatting.

A little more technical: the formatting within the message body is only possible since you have a header before which tell the client that the following text is going to be formatted instead of plain text. Since the individual headers of an e-mail message are pretty much independent of each other (and their order can be random and might even be changed by the sending server), it is impossible to do the same without changing the way e-mails are generated and processed - this most likely will not happen since it wouldn't make sense to overthrow a well-established standard only to add a single silly feature...

i Andreas