[X-Newbies] about mail

[Al Poulin]

On Sep 1, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Steven Rogers wrote:

>
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
>
>> Yes, that is what I do once in a while.  But I have another Mail 
>> quibble.  When I reply to any mail, the original mail window just 
>> disappears.  Then to continue reading a list mail in digest mode, I 
>> have to go back to the Inbox to reopen it.  And I sometimes have to 
>> go back to the Inbox for the original mail if I decide to change 
>> something in the way I deleted portions of the quoted text.  I did 
>> not have to do that in Outlook Express with OS 9.
>>
>> Any way to keep that original mail window open?
>
> It seems like you're reading mail with an unusual window 
> configuration. The only way to have a message disappear upon reply is 
> to have opened that message in its own window. I think Mail is built 
> around the assumption that you would typically view the text of 
> messages in the lower "body" pane below the "message list" pane. That 
> way, when you reply to a message, a new window is opened for composing 
> the reply, but the original message is still visible in the primary 
> Mail window.

Yes, I will play with this a bit to see how I like it.  I keep the 
separator bar of the Inbox at the bottom as a convenience to see more 
of the Inbox at a time and also to see more of the long e-mails at a 
time.  Sometimes I wish my Apple 17 inch LCD screen were "taller."

Thanks,
Al