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    Can't Mark Emails as Unread - Need Help

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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

      Are you serious?

      Yes.

      Theres got to be a way to change it back to blue.

      How could you "unsee" something? 🙂

      Maybe the solution is in tweaking a file?

      Don't know if it's possible to change the colors so unread uses blue.

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      • burnout426
        burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

        Are you serious?

        Yes.

        Theres got to be a way to change it back to blue.

        There's no way to clear the "is_seen" status of a message in Opera. You can change that bit by modifying the x-opera-status header in the mbs file for the message that's in the mail/store folder. But, that header is just kind of informative. The real status flags that Opera uses for a message are in omailbase.dat. If you can reverse-engineer that file and write a program to do what you want, you might accomplish the task.

        You can try:

        • Making a copy of the mbs file.

        • Modifying the X-Opera-Status header in the copy so that the is_seen flag isn't set.

        • Shift + DEL-ing the message in Opera to permanently delete it (and its mbs file).

        • Import the copy back into the account (would have to be a POP account) using the "Menu -> settings -> import and export -> import mail -> import generic mbox" wizard.

        But, that might not even work either as I don't know/remember if the importer will take the X-Opera-Status header into account.

        How could you "unsee" something?

        Exactly this. No joke.

        Don't know if it's possible to change the colors so unread uses blue.

        You might be able to mess with the colors in the "Colors" section in opera:config to tweak the bold black to make it blue. You might have to use the "system color scheme" color scheme option in Opera with the "Opera Standard" skin and modify the appearance colors in Windows. But, even if you do all that, it'd still just be unread and not also unseen.

        In short, there's practically no way to do what you want.

        But, for IMAP, I guess you could unsubscribe from the IMAP folder and resubscribe. Or, save the message, delete it from the server, import it into a POP account and drag it to the Inbox IMAP folder via IMAP and mark it as unread (with a different client or instance of Opera). Or, for POP, you could do the same and when the POP account sees the new message, it'll be Unread and Unseen.

        With all that said though, Opera uses 3 states as sgunhouse said. Opera isn't really meant to work with "mark as read" set to anything but "manually". You get the message, open it and then after you've really read it, you can mark it as read to tell Opera if it's really read. If you use "mark as read after 1 second" for example, just opening the message will mark it as read even if you didn't read it. In other words, just selecting items in the message list when the preview pane is turned on will mark messages as read on ya.

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        • Deleted User
          Deleted User last edited by

          Hi, burnout. Can you please tell me where in opera:config I should be looking?

          Also, I saw something in opers:config called, 'color scheme mode'. Do you know what this does by any chance?

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          • linuxmint7
            linuxmint7 last edited by

            Relentless and seemingly quite thankless, Mmmmmmmm!!!. I suppose it is a free help forum after all, manned by mostly volunteers. [shrugs]

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            • Deleted User
              Deleted User last edited by

              linuxmint, I dont know what youre talking about. On a thread I created under another username, you were extremely rude, stubborn and insulting. Everyone here gets a thanks from me. But YOU will NEVER get any from me. The only 2 people I respect here are burnout and sgunhouse. They know all about Opera. But you dont know shit!!

              Dont reply on ANY of my threads from now on. Make yourself useful and go outside your house for once. Troll someplace else.

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              • linuxmint7
                linuxmint7 last edited by

                On a thread I created under another username, you were extremely rude, stubborn and insulting.

                Proves your personality shows through no matter what user name you post via. Oh, and you have no idea what I know, and rude is not one of them, but respect definitely is.

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                • Deleted User
                  Deleted User last edited by

                  linuxmint, I dont know what youre talking about. On a thread I created under another username, you were extremely rude, stubborn and insulting. Everyone here gets a thanks from me. But YOU will NEVER get any from me. The only 2 people I respect here are burnout and sgunhouse. They know all about Opera. But you dont know shit!!
                  Dont reply on ANY of my threads from now on. Make yourself useful and go outside your house for once. Troll someplace else.

                  Uh... you're not in a position to tell others what to reply to or refrain from. This is a public forum and every user is free to respond to all posts... period. The only person I'm finding extremely rude, stubborn and insulting right now is ... well.. take a look in the mirror.

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                  • burnout426
                    burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                    Hi, burnout. Can you please tell me where in opera:config I should be looking?

                    Under the "Colors" section.

                    But, I refreshed my memory.

                    The "Selected Item" colors in Appearance in Windows control the background color and text color of a selected item in Opera's message list (and other programs with that widget).

                    The "Window" color in appearance controls the background color of the message list pane. "Color List Row Mode" under User Prefs in operaprefs.ini controls the alternating colors for the rows. Set it to 2 to disable that. Color Scheme Mode under User Prefs controls the color scheme shading for Opera's UI background. 0=None, 1=system, 2=Chosen Color scheme. When "2" is set, Skin= under "User Prefs" controls the shading color.

                    That seems to be the case whether the color scheme is set to "system color scheme" or not.

                    With that said, I can't seem to figure out how to change the text color for an unselected item in the message list. Can't seem to change the blue for unseen or the bold black for the seen etc. Unless I'm missing something, it's just hardcoded.

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                    • Deleted User
                      Deleted User last edited by

                      On a thread I created under another username, you were extremely rude, stubborn and insulting.

                      Proves your personality shows through no matter what user name you post via. Oh, and you have no idea what I know, and rude is not one of them, but respect definitely is.

                      Proves you got no life except to be a miserable little troll. I dont want to know what you know. But I know one thing.. its never on the same level as burnout or sgunhouse.

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                      • Deleted User
                        Deleted User last edited by

                        linuxmint, I dont know what youre talking about. On a thread I created under another username, you were extremely rude, stubborn and insulting. Everyone here gets a thanks from me. But YOU will NEVER get any from me. The only 2 people I respect here are burnout and sgunhouse. They know all about Opera. But you dont know shit!!
                        Dont reply on ANY of my threads from now on. Make yourself useful and go outside your house for once. Troll someplace else.

                        Uh... you're not in a position to tell others what to reply to or refrain from. This is a public forum and every user is free to respond to all posts... period. The only person I'm finding extremely rude, stubborn and insulting right now is ... well.. take a look in the mirror.

                        I'm in EVERY position to tell trolls like you what to do and not do. This is a public forum with forum rules. If you dont like the rules then take you and your boyfriend and troll and insult someplace else... to hell with that! The other person who doesnt have a life and is as misreable and apparently a cosigning ass kisser is YOU!

                        Stop breaking forum rules, insulting others and cosigning for trolls.

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                        • Deleted User
                          Deleted User last edited by

                          Hi, burnout. Can you please tell me where in opera:config I should be looking?

                          Under the "Colors" section.
                          But, I refreshed my memory.
                          The "Selected Item" colors in Appearance in Windows control the background color and text color of a selected item in Opera's message list (and other programs with that widget).
                          The "Window" color in appearance controls the background color of the message list pane. "Color List Row Mode" under User Prefs in operaprefs.ini controls the alternating colors for the rows. Set it to 2 to disable that. Color Scheme Mode under User Prefs controls the color scheme shading for Opera's UI background. 0=None, 1=system, 2=Chosen Color scheme. When "2" is set, Skin= under "User Prefs" controls the shading color.
                          That seems to be the case whether the color scheme is set to "system color scheme" or not.
                          With that said, I can't seem to figure out how to change the text color for an unselected item in the message list. Can't seem to change the blue for unseen or the bold black for the seen etc. Unless I'm missing something, it's just hardcoded.

                          Hi burnout. Thank you for your input. Its good to know that there are a few intelligent people like yourself on this forum who know what theyre talking about and dont waste time with ingnorant people.

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                          • Deleted User
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                            Hey burnout and sgunhouse.. I created a new thread. Please provide your great inpuit.. looking forward to it.. Below is the link.. Thanks!

                            https://forums.opera.com/topic/4993/how-do-i-change-font-color-in-mail-treeview

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