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Some email entries in the viewing pane are showing in yellow type rather than black. Why?
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.0.x)
Are they messages that are part if a conversation? You can configure Mail to color those. Mail>Preferences>Viewing>View Conversations
and Mail System Preferences>
No - that's not it. The type face is coloured (yellow) and there is an icon to the left of the mail item but I cannot make out what it is - a crushed paper bag perhaps? This only started 2 days ago. Up until then every entry of mail in my in box and junk in box was in black typeface; bold for unread mail, and regular font for read mail. I have not made any changes. This new colour has come out of nowhere and I cannot see any pattern as to why some messages are like this and some not. I am using Yosemite.
Thanks for trying to help.
If that is an approximation of brown, that is an indication of Junk mail.
In some views that rumpled bag may have a recycle Icon on it.
Thank you Grant but up to now my junk mail went into my junk mail in-box with no colour change.Now, many of them (but not all) are this new colour (brownish) with an icon. In addition, some of my real mail (not junk mail) in my real inbox are now coloured but are not necessarily junk. If I click on them, they revert to black. Its weird. Is this another Yosemite pain?
There are 2 types of Junk. The Brown (yellow?) stuff was marked as junk by Mail, if it's Black then your email provider marked it as junk.
Thank you. This seems plausible. But it does not answer my question about how and why the change of colour was triggered. I have never had it before and i didn't make any changes myself. It just happened. But thanks for pointing me in the directions of the 2 sources of junk mail designation.
Why it happens now and not before is just one more digital mystery, but there are some settings that you can alter that make more sensible if you want.
In Mail>Preferences>Junk Mail make your settings thus:
The last 2 are the important ones, they will stop Mail taking notice of what your ISP says about the email, instead Mail will assess whether it is junk. If it is then it will be recoloured and moved to the junk mailbox. Over time Mail will learn (which it can't do very well now as it is not checking any mail marked as junk by your ISP) so the database is always complete instead of partially.
Thank you very much for explaining this to me and I will double check those settings. I won't concern myself any more. Isn't this way of getting help pretty wonderful?
You're welcome.
why do some of my inbox entires appear in yellow/beige rather than black type?
