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Bug 704361 - Can't change message colour back to default
Can't change message colour back to default
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 241477
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.8.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-07-17 02:02 UTC by darren
Modified: 2013-07-17 12:55 UTC
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Description darren 2013-07-17 02:02:35 UTC 
Using Evolution 3.4.4 as shipped with openSUSE 12.2.

I have experimented with a mail filter rule that sets the message colour to bright yellow.

I want to manually clear the bright yellow status as I read my messages.

Now I can't find a way to do this. It seems the only option is to create another filter rule and apply it very carefully. And, I'm not sure whether I'd be setting the colour to black or to default. I want to unset the colour, to revert this message to the same on-disc state as its neighbours that never matched the first filter rule.

Is there seriously no way in all of Evolution to unset the colour that was set by a filter? Or is it just buried in a place that I'm not looking?

In hindsight, it looks like a label would have been more suitable for my task. But how do I now fix up my messages?
Comment 1 André Klapper 2013-07-17 11:54:08 UTC 
Valid issue. Also see bug 241477
Comment 2 darren 2013-07-17 12:26:40 UTC 
Could you please point me to the place on-disc where I can manually remove these colours from my emails? I can swear at this point that I will never use this feature again :) But I don't want bright yellow emails lingering on.

I am using the maildir format, having allowed Evolution to convert from the earlier mbox format for me.
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2013-07-17 12:55:01 UTC 
I agree with Jeff's comment in bug 241477 comment 5.

After 7 years of working on Evolution I never even knew this existed.  The "set color" filter action should be thrown out.

In any case, closing this as a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 241477 ***