<A HREF="http://www.badkey.com/db/blogsphere.nsf/d6plinks/JWIE-7KHQZN">The Badkey Corner Team</A> offers help in re-setting the color properties in Lotus Notes 8. The Notes 8 mail template displays unread documents in black, instead of red, thereby eliminating those confusing calls about "red unread messages".

If you want to change the color of read and unread documents in your mail file design they explain how this can be done.