I agree that the bold is only useful for specific users. I have v9 and the inbox is IMPOSSIBLE to read. It is a nasty confusing mess of bold type and icons and emoticons and whatever else. I literally cannot read the list. I don’t have the time and energy to navigate the Theme editor. Isn’t there a nice clean ‘classic’?
And things are made worse because despite my complaints and setting changes my outgoing mail messages are appearing in my inbox. IN BOLD. Conversations putting sent messages in the inbox is a design flaw. It’s irrational. It has the flavour of a bug that couldn’t be fixed so someone rewrote the specs. As a reviewer I used to joke with WordPerfect developers about PDFs (pre-documented features).
I’m trying to pay an invoice. I can read the incoming mail entries. Ctrl-F brings up a new message. Fixed that. Searched, and found the wrong messages. I am currently reduced to guessing who might have sent me a message and searching for them. I am missing invitations, important medical communications, and more because they are lost in a morass of entries.