[HOWTO] Make default Mail app follow system theme

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Hey all,
Recently I switched from the dark theme to the light one and I noticed that the Mail app did not follow the new setting.
Since the option to set the app’s theme is hidden, I had to find a workaround to fix that.
This is what I did:

  1. Export settings from Mail app

  2. Open the exported file with a text editor (it’s a simple XML file)

  3. Change line <value key="theme">dark</value> to <value key="theme">follow_system</value> (I found the correct value by checking the same line on a freshly exported file from a clean K9-Mail installation)

  4. Save the file and import it into Mail app

Now the app follows the system’s theme correctly! :partying_face:

I did this on a FairPhone 4, running eOS 2.3-t, but it should apply to other devices/OS versions too.

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