Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / August 2008

As Sander and John said, the color you select in the Settings is just
for how plain text is displayed on your screen and does not affect the
mail you send.  Eudora will not by default send styled text; you need to
select your send color in the new message pane when you start a new
email.

Bearing in mind that many of us do not wish to received styled text
(HTML), and that the recipient gets to control how their received
messages appear on their screen (so they may over-ride whatever styles
you send them), the work around would be to create a stationary file
that specifies sending blue text.  In the Settings | Composing Mail
pane, select that stationary where it says, "take settings and text from
stationary".

Oh, and BTW, if you're just wanting to send your outgoing text as blue
so that you can distinguish your quoted text from the new text sent back
to you, go to Settings | Fonts & Display and set the color for quotes as
blue.  (Just click on the box and set the color you like.)

Ah. Then still your current approach is wrong, because it would depend
on the person sending you a reply to ensure that your text is 'sent as
blue'. There is aboslutely no way to enforce that. (Even if the
recipient is into colouring too, what if they had decided on colouring
*their* text blue? ;))

But life is much, much simpler: just tell Eudora to, for incoming mail,
use different colours for new and for quoted text. (But note that there
is of course no guarantee that all quoted text will always be yours ;))

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Wrong approach, and anyway simply not possible (except in an "it might
or might not work sometimes, depending on the phase of the moon").

Are you using Eudora's own text formatting?
(pages 42 and 288 in Eudora 6.2.4 manual for Macintosh):

"Color (Sponsored and Paid modes only) - Makes the text black,
indicated by No Color (the default), or the indicated color.
Default color options are red, green, blue, yellow, and brown."

Have you sent yourself a "Bcc" copy,
to see how it looks when you receive it yourself?

Not clear whose text is what color, but in any event,
what they sent back has been further processed through their own program,
and is not a sure indicator of what your Eudora sent to them.

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