Mac Whine: Mail.app's wandering columns

I use letterbox and have this problem. When I do a search and then click the 'x' in the search bar or hit escape, the columns go wonky. But instead of dragging them all to where I want, I click on a smart mailbox, where the columns are nice and how I want them, and then click back onto my inbox. Now the column widths are all better.

I thought I was the only one who noticed this! I hate how the attachments column always resizes after a search - I like to keep it as small as possible so it just shows the paperclip (I don't care how many attachments an email has). After searching, it always stretches out and I have to shrink it back down again.

My columns don't change size.

When searching you get a new set of columns, but once I've set their width they stay set...

To sort by date when searching just click the 'Date' column. Sometimes after re-searching it remembers this, but I don't find it all that annoying to re-click 'Date'.

I've never had this problem. or i just haven't noticed. when do the collumn widths change?

ignore my splelling. my typing sucks

Mentioned before here

http://www.betalogue.com/2007/03/26/mail-20-arbitrarily-resizes-columns-after-search/

Mail's coulmn resizing is annoying but it does one thing extraordinarily well: it reformats the data in a given column, namely the Date Received, in a very intelligent manner: start sizing the column down and the date collapses.

iTunes 7.x might retain separate column widths per folder (playlist) view but it could stand to add this behavior: the dates don't act this way, for example..

The traditional strengths of the Mac OS and its UI are consistency and mutability! Here's hoping Apple remembers to step back, take the broad view, and keep functions consistent across their core apps.

BTW, stationery is going to piss off a number of email admins..

Despite the many posts here, I too have never had any issues with columns staying put and it almost never crashes(maybe 4 times in 2 years). I use Mail.app at home and at work, I love it.

This behavior happens to me too. And I hate it too!

Fix this Apple.

Really irritates me too. Especially the attachments column: if I've resized it to only display the paper clip and never want to see the item count, why does it grow... Aaaargh!

I use the Letterbox plugin as well, and just recently discovered that by toggling the preview pane off then back on, the columns readjust to my original setting.