Hello Gordon, Did you copy over your ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file to your new machine when the Mail application was closed, and then try to start up mail?
If you are trying to set up your mail configuration again from scratch, without having that com.apple.mail.plist file in place before you started Mail, are you using classic view? Specifically, if you bring up your mail preferences with Command+comma, press Control+F5 to move to the toolbar, navigate by tabbing or right arrow to the "Viewing" button and select it, then tab down into the "Viewing" pane, is the first item check box for "Use classic layout" checked? If you are in classic view, which is not the default setting for mail if you open it for the first time, then there will be a horizontal splitter. Navigating from "mailboxes", with VO-Right arrow, I'll hear, "vertical splitter", then "messages". Then I VO-Down Arrow from messages to reach the horizontal splitter for the preview pane. On my system, if I VO-Right arrow from "messages", I reach a different horizontal splitter that separates "mailboxes" from "mail activity". Check this by doing VO-Up arrow and/or VO-Down arrow from that splitter. If, in classic view in mail, you VO-Down arrow from the messages box, you should be on the horizontal splitter. I don't need to interact with that horizontal splitter. I route my mouse cursor there, with VO-Command-F5. Then, I click on that splitter with my mouse. On my laptop I prefer to click with Mouse Keys, which I have set up to turn on with five presses of the Option key. Then I click on the splitter with Mouse Keys. I think this is Fn+i in Mountain Lion. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 17 Apr 2013, at 04:04, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi all > > I'm having a lot of trouble wityh the latest version of Mail. Because it > wasn't possible to port over every setting just by en-block copying the Mail > folders as I used to do, I am having to set up some of the parameters > manually. As I recall, there is a horizontal splitter next to the messages > box wich one has to interact with. I did so, then I clicked the new setting > of the pulldown bar with the mouse. No effect! So could somebody remind me > of the new method of doing this? > > Thanks. > > Kind regards > > <--- Gordon Smith ---> > > <[email protected]> > > Telephone: > > United Kingdom: Free Phone: > 0800 8620538 > > Mobile: > +44 7907 823971 > > Europe and other non-specified: > +44 1642 688095 > > United States Of America And Canada: > +1 646 9151493 > / > +1 209 436 9443 > > Vic. Australia: > +61 38 8205930 > Vic. Australia > +61 39 0284505 > > Fax: > +44 1642 365123 > > Follow Us On Twitter: > <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> > > Skype: > <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> > > ------------------------------ > > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
