Widemail makes Mail.app widescreen friendly

BUGGY! caused my Mail app to not send random messages. I would have to send them 2-3 times, then about once a month Mail would crash and I would have to re-index my entire mailbox database.... at which point it would "find" and send(!) all of the vanished emails... some a month or more old! MAJOR PAIN-IN-THE-A!!

since uninstalling i've had ZERO problems!

hey guys...just thought i would put this out there...i spoke to the developer of LetterBox

and he is going to work on the 2 level mail option to be included in Letterbox...which i have been using for months now...and cant stand looking at mail on my SD screen on my iBook G4...but my imac and my macbook are loving having Letterbox installed...i never have a problem with it...and adore how it works

and cant wait for him to work on the program...he said he would do some work on it this weekend...and i have been given permission to pester him about it...i cant wait...i love the look of WideMail but hearing all the horror stories here...i really want that functionality in LetterBox...i even told him i wanted to have the second line a different color...but i told him i didnt care if i could change that color...i just want the email to look like it does in WideMail...so feel free to comment here if you are a LetterBox lover too...and how much you are looking forward to this new functionality in Letterbox

I'm very pleased with Widemail, except that it seems also to be emulating an annoying bug in entourage, which is that when you switch to a different folder, and then switch back, it's forgotten the sorting order on the 'Widemail' column, and also forgotten which message was in focus. Which means that every time I switch folders I have to click on the column header and then scroll to the end again. If this is truly a bug (ie. no immediate workaround) then I'm sadly going to have to uninstall again :(

Mike

I also prefer Letterbox. I tried Widemail and had no troubles with it, but it is very slow compared to Letterbox. With Widemail there is a noticeable lag when you hit the flippy triangle to open/close an email thread.

In the post photo, you have widemail set to show the subject line just below the sender name. I suppose my question is - how did you set it up to look the way it looks in the picture? I'm no Mac idiot, or computer idiot in general, but I've just wasted 30 minutes of my life trying to find the setting! Was that the default on your download? The preferences panel should be better explained, I think.

One of the first of many Apps I install on my new Mac Pro's. And as for people actually saying it's buggy "What the F- are you talking about" This app is smooth as KY baby. On a serious level though, I really love the way this app lays out Mac mail.

I prefer Letterbox - http://harnly.net/software/letterbox/

It just works, it's been stable since Tiger and looks much better!

Not only has Widemail repeatedly crashed Mail.app - not even getting to the point of loading my mailboxes, just the beachball spinning merrily away – but I can't 're-enable the subject line' before uninstalling Widemail, because Mail.app freezes every time I run it, thanks to this ill-behaving add-in. So removing Widemail leaves me with no subject line in the Unread Mail (smart mailbox) view. WTF???

Sorry to hear others had problems. I installed it today with no issues. Now that I have all my mailboxes showing the two line 'widemail' format, I have only one thing I'd like to fix: get rid of the 'last saved' column in my drafts mailbox. I got rid of all the other redundant columns in the other mailboxes but I can't find a way of getting rid of the 'last saved' column in the drafts mailbox

I also had problems with Mail repeatedly freezing after installing Widemail.

Having read the other comments here, I downloaded and installed Letterbox, which seems much better.