OK, imagine that no-one here uses Outlook. This is, after all, a Thunderbird forum.

So, what is conditional formatting in respect of email senders?

You can colour code messages by applying tags to them.

Conditional formatting is in the simplest of terms, colour coding of the senders email name....e.g. Fred@ parts.com could be red, where sis@spares.org could be blue....

Simple huh......want to know if this is possible in thunderbird, or dare I say it, any other email client other than OUTxxxx

Thanks

No, all I can offer is tags applied by a filter.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-tags https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/organize-your-messages-using-filters

Conditional formatting is in the simplest of terms, colour coding of the senders email name....e.g. Fred@ parts.com could be red, where sis@spares.org could be blue....

Simple huh......want to know if this is possible in thunderbird, or dare I say it, any other email client other than OUTxxxx

Thanks

Don't suppose thunderbird will ever do this, would be handy though

Red.dwarf4ever said

Don't suppose thunderbird will ever do this, would be handy though

I read all of this and still have no idea either where this coloring appears or what value it would have anywhere.

If you want the email recipients name to appear in say Green, what is wrong in formatting with a tag so ALL of the list item shown in the sent list is Green? I do not see the special value of having a colour for the email address.

Don't know why this concept is so difficult to follow.

Just want different colour for individual email addressses such that those from my dissector appear as red.....family as green, would need to set each individually........

Red.dwarf4ever said

Don't know why this concept is so difficult to follow. Just want different colour for individual email addressses such that those from my dissector appear as red.....family as green, would need to set each individually........

I do not think the concept is difficult, I just don't get it. Why it would be useful in any way at all. Other than feature parity with Outlook.

I see no real difference in using a filter to set a tag based on the address or presence in a certain address book, with the resulting change of the color of the whole line and basically the same result in this "conditional formatting" but only applying it to the address field.

We will have to just agree to differ...

Wasn't trying to start world war 3.... Let's just call it a day...

Thanks