Email Account Color Coding

[Cheetah]

I'm loving the idea of the color coding of my non-gmail email accounts, however in the process of fixing some folder-related issues server side, I've had to remove and re-add some of the accounts a couple times, and now the colors it has selected for the accounts are rather ugly to my tastes.

Has anyone found any trick for how to configure which colors are used for accounts, and maybe re-order them in the list (I'd like to have the email accounts I rarely use at the bottom for obvious reasons)?

 

[HappyDays]

Did you find a solution for this?

 

[Cheetah]

Sorry, no, never found a solution. Just living with the pink :/

 

[hexon]

Just readd and delete your previous email account and it will change to another color.

 

[dakover]

I would love to know this too. Just got my droid and want to change colors.

 

[ucanballmeup]

I had some free time on my hands and went through the colors for email accounts. Here is a list of colors in order. The first and the last may be out of order, but you get the picture.

Dark Orange
Orange
Red
Blue
Teal
Purple
Dark Blue
Sea Green
Green
Red
Yellow
Dark Yellow/Gold
Red/Light Purple
Red Orange
Light brown
Gray/Purple
Gray/Blue
Light Blue
Gray/Green
Yellow/Brown
Yellow with brown tint (poo)
Yellow Green

In order to get to the color you want, you need to add and remove your account that many times. Hope this helps. I'm not a programmer, so this is the best I could do.

 

[LZeitgeist]

I just cycled through the colors available to me, and what I found wasn't nearly as extensive.

Seafoam Green
Burgundy
Dark Green
Light Orange
Purple-ish Blue
Grey
Light Purple
Olive Green
Pink-ish Purple
Seafoam Green (etc.)

I'm disappointed. I was trying to key a couple of my accounts with high-visibility yellow and bright green. No such luck.

I wonder if software updates dropped some of the colors? I swear I used to have one that had just happened to be yellow...

BTW, I'm on an original Droid running Froyo.

 

[goldrush28]

Thanks for this thread. I finally found people more anal than I am-lol.

 

[PhilosoRaptor]

Have you all seen K-9 mail in the market..? It lets you choose from a huge color palette to label your accounts with. It seems to work better than the stock e-mail app for me too.

 

[bob01000]

You can change your K9 email accounts to any color code you like. Do the following: click K-9 mail icon to start it from home screen or application. NOW, Your Unified box, All message box, and all other email accounts(folders) should show up here.

I have a couple Yahoo accounts listed.
I picked the one that says (in my case): "Bob01000@yahoo.com" NOW press and hold the account folder icon until a menu appears. It will be THAT accounts options. Choose account settings, then choose display. You will now see and Account Color option that gives the entire rainbow of colors to make each mail account.

You don't have to cycle them at all

I'm loving the idea of the color coding of my non-gmail email accounts, however in the process of fixing some folder-related issues server side, I've had to remove and re-add some of the accounts a couple times, and now the colors it has selected for the accounts are rather ugly to my tastes.

Has anyone found any trick for how to configure which colors are used for accounts, and maybe re-order them in the list (I'd like to have the email accounts I rarely use at the bottom for obvious reasons)?

 

[Displacedmic]

well - since we have revived this thread i would like to say that i too would prefer an option for changing colours in the stock mail app as i have started using that instead of K9 recently!

the lack of conversation threading in K9 is what killed it for me and now that i have figured out how to set my gmail account up as an exchange account in the stock mail app and can enable push i can do away with having the gmail app (which is actually my favourite) AND another mail app running at the same time.

 

[TigerGirlDSM]

I loved K9 - until they dropped support of Exchange 2010... I'm still looking for a really good mail client. I'm using the stock browser in the meantime.

 

[Tonus1]

Found it !

After looking for a while...

Just the same as in K-9 !

to change account color in MailDroid : just tap and hold your account in home app page and choose... change color