Comments on: Three column view in Apple Mail - is it possible?

Question: Three column view in Apple Mail - is it possible?

clango — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:38:10 -0800

I love most of Apple Mail. I love the three-column wide view of Thunderbird. (Vertical view) Is there any way to keep the features of Mail, but hack it to display lists and previews more like Thunderbird? I've found interface hacks and add-ons for almost every other possible option.

By: dantekgeek

dantekgeek — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:13:16 -0800

There unfortunately isn't any way to, but here's a sexy mockup to drool over while you dream of all that Mail could be.

By: clango

clango — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:23:15 -0800

Jesus Fudge-Dammit Christ, that's EXACTLY what I want.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:08:11 -0800

There are endless Thunderbird extensions out there, and Thunderbird itself is built to be extensible; could you come at this from the other direction, and tweak Thunderbird until it behaves enough like Apple Mail to make you happy?

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:46:38 -0800

Blah. What an utter waste of screen real estate. As long as its optional, I don't care if Apple makes it possible or not.

By: santry

santry — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:33:53 -0800

MacOSXHints recently wrote about a MailBundle that gives you a three-pane interface.

I tried it and it seems to work OK. The annoying thing I've found is that when you search, the search results use different columns and when you switch back to the regular inbox view, the columns are out of whack and are a pain to put back.