Highlight text & remove in Mail

If you have Time Machine you could restore the Gmail data and upload back to the server.

I prefer Gmail in my browser as well. It's the account I use for "other" email like newsletters, subscriptions or anything that might result in spam. I like to keep these types of emails away from my business & personal emails. Gmail's spam filter is wonderful.

dianeoforegon wrote:

If you have Time Machine you could restore the Gmail data and upload back to the server.

I do have Time Machine backups but the total time it took for me to add the Gmail account to Mail, download messages then delete the Gmail account from Mail took maybe 10-15 mins so I'm not sure Time Machine would have had time to back up the account. On the off chance it did, which folder would I restore?

Thanks again.

Thanks Eric. I was hoping for something more specific relating to a Gmail account. However, after doing an extensive search on my backup drive I didn't see anything promising which is what I suspected. The Gmail account in Mail didn't exist long enough to be backed up by TM.

FWIW, afaik, the methods you mentioned only work locally. If you send the email the recipient won't see the highlight.

You could use Thunderbird but you would have to know HTML to highlight text.

Do they own a Mac? When I sent a couple to a Windows account it didn't work.

Thanks. Things have changed since 2012 but I do appreciate your effort. Seeing Mail completely destroyed my Gmail account I have no emails to highlight. 😎

Thanks again diane. That's the info I was looking for. Unfortunately as I suspected I added the Gmail account to Mail, and removed it before TM had a chance to back it up.