[G4] .Mail App

[Tony Gamble]

shopdog,

     Tim might have been referring to Tiger's Mail.app.  It doesn't  
seem to use the drawer method anymore, but rather a more traditional  
tri-pane layout à la Outlook.  Pity... I rather liked the uniqueness  
of the drawer design.

     I use my Mail the same as you, Tim, with the preview pane below  
the messages list.  Something I never would have done back in my PC  
days, since this method significantly raised the risk of catching  
something being passed along.  Once in a blue moon, I still have to  
double-click a message to open it in its own window; particularly  
long messages don't show all in the preview pane (hence the "preview"  
label, I presume).

Tony


On 20-Jun-05, at 9:05 AM, shopdog wrote:

> Tim:
>
> You can move the "accounts thingy" to the right side if you want.   
> Click on the "mailboxes" icon at the top of the main mail window.   
> That will bring the accounts drawer (a.k.a. "accounts thingy") back  
> in.  Then if you move the main mail window (the entire window) to  
> the left, so that it is very close to the left side of the screen,  
> then click the "mailboxes" icon again, the drawer will open up to  
> the right.
>
> shopdog
>
>
> On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Tim Collier wrote:
>
>
>> Ahhh, see I use the mail app like this:  the accounts thingy on  
>> the left (can't move it anyway) and a pre-view pane on the right,  
>> at the top of the preview pane are the email messages.  I can  
>> scroll through the messages and the content is displayed below.   
>> To me (at least) this is the perfect way to view mail.....it's  
>> more or less the same as Entourage.  The mail app handles .Mac  
>> accounts better, Entourage syncs slowly and you have to wait for  
>> it.  The mail app doesn't do this and when I quit, it quits  
>> immediately.  In Entourage, even after quitting it stays 'alive'  
>> cleaning up or whatever it's doing....I didn't like this.
>>
>> Tim
>> On Jun 19, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I also vastly prefer Eudora over AppleMail, mainly because  
>>> navigating around is much easier. In AppleMail it is double- 
>>> click, read message, close message, double-click to read next  
>>> message, ad nauseum. In Eudora, you just double click to read the  
>>> first message and then use a key command (I use Cmd-and the down  
>>> or up arrow keys) to move to the next message. The previous  
>>> message is closed and the next one opens. In AppleMail, this only  
>>> works with the preview pane, while I like to have the complete  
>>> message open.
>>>
>>> Regarding HTML, Eudora gives you the option to use HTML, but HTML  
>>> should NOT be used in email. ALWAYS USE PLAIN TEXT FOR EMAIL!!!
>>>
>>
>> Exterminate all rational though.
>>
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