Widescreen Plugin for Leopard Mail brings 2-line preview

A while back we posted about Letterbox, a plugin for Tiger's Mail.app that brought a widescreen format to Mail by moving the preview pane to the right of the subject listing. Letterbox isn't working in Leopard (though the author says he is working on it), but a new plugin for Leopard has been released that not only brings a widescreen 3-pane format to Leopard Mail.app, but also introduces a very useful two-row subject preview similar to Entourage.
WidescreenMailPlugin is a free download from daneharnett.com (though donations are requested).
[via Hawk Wings]
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A while back we posted about Letterbox, a plugin for Tiger's Mail.app that brought a widescreen format to Mail by moving the preview pane...
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I've been looking for the Letterbox update, but don't see one yet.
I like the single line preview.
Worked great for about a day.... then mail crashed and I couldn't get it running again until I uninstalled it (using the included uninstaller). My mail is now back to normal and I don't think I'll try something like that again.
Macbook (black), Core Duo, Leopard
Looks like there's been and update since this article was posted. Check it out!
November 08 2007 at 11:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replydoes work for me either. wont allow me to resize the window. when i grab the lower right corner the whole window goes white and freezes.
November 07 2007 at 8:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyEyecandy,
Please post more details on getting letterbox to work. I tried the terminal commands, Mail still disables the Letterbox 0.16 bunde....
adding these two lines at terminal enables letterbox on leo mail (functions much better than wmp):
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 3
Mat, I suggest you lay off the coffee for the rest of today.
November 07 2007 at 5:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@11: Wow you're brilliant. You caught us. If only there weren't a FREAKING attribution to Hawk Wings at the bottom of the FREAKING post.
November 07 2007 at 4:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLemme guess, next up, you guys are going to talk about Cover Flow for Address Book and MiniMail...
You might as well admit that you're cribbing off of http://www.hawkwings.net
didn't work very well for me. all the text started under the "subject" field rather than at the very left of the screen, and highlighted [ie: related etc] emails had screwed up kerning.
uninstalled it straight away, i'll wait for a letterbox update.
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