Can't answer your question. Inspected a PHC where the first two entries are colored red. I can't see any systematic pointing to be the colorentry.
bye Olaf
Where is the information about header color (of the sort created by the F11 command) stored and how is it encoded?
I need to try to recover information about colors assigned to messages; that color info seems to have been lost (the messages are still around). I have whole-disk backup files and can dig into them if I know where to look for the color info and how to decode it.
many thanks for advice/suggestions.
Depends on the folder, where the mails are stored.
If the mails are in a local folder, Pegasus adds a special line to the headers of the mail:
X-PMFLAGS: xxxxxxxx 0 x xxxxxxxx.CNM
The zero indicates black, 1 is red, 7 is blue ... test the remaining colors :-) I think, the numbers are in order of shown by F11 - first down, then right.
In case of IMAP folders, Pegasus can't modify the mail. So I think the colors are stored in the local cachefile (I asume the indexfile) for that folder. But don't know exactly ...
bye Olaf
Yes, this is an IMAP folder. I have backups of the .PHC file, which I think contains the header info, including colors, and am fine with digging thru it if anyone knows which byte(s) encoding the header color.
R.
I believe the color sequence that Olaf identified is the historically ancient DOS color bytes from 0 to 15 (ie; hex 0-9, A-F)
I am wondering where the equivalent byte in IMAP processed messages is? It has to be in the message somewhere if it is reproduced when the message is fetched from the server.
Martin
OK, got desperate for a solution (amazing how dependent we get on these tools). Here's what worked. As a result of having lost individually marked header colors in an IMAP mailbox once before, I had set up a routine job to make a daily backup copy of the .PHC file in IMC-3E9. Using webmail I connected to the mailbox and dealt with all the mail that had accumulated since the incident, so that the newest msgs were no newer than the PHC backup I had. I simply put the backup copy of PHC into IMC-3E9, took a deep breadth, and started up Pegasus.
Wonderfully enough, there were my colored headings again.
So the answer is that the PHC file holds the header colors, tho I do not know exactly where.
