In Lotus Notes 8.0.2, you need to modify the notes.css including in a JAR file for modifying font and color properties of unread/read documents. To update this jar file, you need to follow a special process.

  • Stop your Notes Client
  • Backup the initial jar file (com.ibm.notes.branding_8.0.2.20080809-0430.jar).
  • Extract the notes.css, containing in the “themes” folder.
  • Create a folder “themes” with notes.css in the folder “\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins”
  • Modify the notes.css : For unread mail in red color, you just need to change the color value as described below:

            mailtable>row>unread {

              color: red;

              font-family: Tahoma, Times, Helvetica;

              …

  • Launch the following command :

          jar uf com.ibm.notes.branding_8.0.2.20080809-0430.jar themes\notes.css

  • Restart your Notes Client