Hello, I'm evaluating MailMate as replacement for the venerable Alpine and Mutt MUAs I've been using. I apologize for what will probably be a slate of basic or clueless questions as I try to map the workflows I'm familiar with from those MUAs to MailMate.
One preference that has become ingrained is their modality of these older MUAs. I like being able to navigate a mailbox message in a primary screen or pane, then selecting a message and having its contents displayed in place of the index. Most GUI mail apps seem to use the three pane model for mailboxes/folders, index, and message. The closest I've come with MailMate to approximating the modal style is to "Hide Message View". I can sort of further kludge it by sizing and positioning a selected message's window over the index, but that's far from optimal. For example, the index navigation keys don't seem to be active while the message display window has the focus. Is there a way to configure what I'm after here? Alternately, would this be a feature request candidate? Or is this just too different from the way MailMate works as to be infeasible and I just need to adapt to the new way things work? Aloha, -baron