Change unread message color in Mail

Question

I'm trying to mimic a particularly useful feature in Entourage, the show messages using these colors for read and unread messages. In Entourage you can simply set a preference to show unread messages as one color and read messages as another. Mail doesn't have this capability at all. You can set either the text color or the background color, but you cannot change this color depending on the status of the message (read or unread). The only thing I can do is either set the text or background color of all messages using rules, or set the text on unread messages to bold using preferences.
I found an Applescript that sort of does what I want:
tell application "Mail"
set background color of (messages of inbox whose read status is false) to red--unread
set background color of (messages of inbox whose read status is true) to none--default read
end tell
However, this script will not work if you change "background color" to "text color". It also changes the text color of the read messages in the preview pane to black when it runs the second part and I can't figure out a way to make the text a different color. I have a rule set up to set the color of text to a specific account, but the script overrides the rule.
Any suggestions on how this can be done?

Answer 1

I'm sorry you find my responses to be rude. I simply stated that you are not answering my question. I also said that I appreciate your attempts.
I'm not trying to argue with you, but you come across as if you didn't even take the time to read my original post. Your replies all mention things I already covered in that post, such as the Mail option to display unread messages in bold, or using an Applescript or even trying another program.
I was hoping that someone might be able to either tweak the Applescript I submitted or provide another option I hadn't considered, rather than simply suggest trying things I already said I've tried.
Sorry that this offends you. That was never my intention.