Mac Mail: How To Remove Message Color in Inbox List

No, the issue I'm referring to is the 'set colour of message' 'of text' in the mail rules (which I run on demand from the Message menu):

Which works during that same instance of mail - ie until I quit and restart mail - at which point the same rule looks like this:

I have tried turning off the syncing of mail preferences to iCloud as my other Mac is still on Monterey, but that hasn't changed this behaviour. The rule doesn't stick.

I gather that there are bugs relating to Mail rules in Ventura - but don't know how to add my voice to the reporting of them!

syberknight wrote:

apologies if this is a recycled topic, but i've still not been able to find an answer...

using Ventura 13.3 and looking for a way to reset the color of messages that i added a color to.

note: i'm NOT referring to the body background or text of an email.

when viewing an Inbox/folder list of messages, i started adding colors (both background and text color) for items that a simple Flag would not suffice.

The only color I am aware of is conversions..

Mail>Settings>Viewing

submit your Apple Feedback here: Feedback - Mail - Apple

So, I'm not sure if you mean accent color and highlight colors but this is where you can change those. It will affect all system highlight colors as well and not just in Mail. System Settings, Appearance, Accent Color and Highlight Color.

syberknight wrote:

thanks, but, i'm not referring to "Conversations" or "Threads". i described in my post how one would go about adding a background or text color to the message list.

As I suggest in my post above—you can submit your feedback using the link provided.

Sorry, I haven't got an answer - but I'm trying to do exactly that without success (yet!)

I have Keyboard Maestro and Smallcubed Mailtags (the MailAct-On bit of Mailsuite didn't play nicely with Keyboard Maestro so I uninstalled that bit) - and still haven't found a way to remove a color (or even set the color to any other color) after it was applied by a rule.

I'll keep trying - and watching this thread to see if anyone has any solution - but fundamentally it comes down to mail.app not (?yet) being as scriptable as I need it to be.

Update - I discovered the above rule does work but ONLY if you select a colour from the list of colours, not if you select a different colour from the colour picker. As black isn't on the list, I can't even mimic removing a previously applied colour (which is what I'd really like to do!)

Thank you - useful info... shame I just renewed my MailSuite after a several year hiatus! I'm in an email conversation with SmallCubed support at the moment as Mail Act-on just won't play with mail in Ventura (so I uninstalled the Act-on bit and just use the tags). Colouring with tags puts too much colour on the screen for me though - I want *only* the text colour to change in the message list. If only mail app were more scriptable...