Thanks Michael In the meantime, my brother in law, Alan, rang me and put me on the right track. I have now "found" the magic "bar" and moved it to create my preferred two part Display window.
David Nicholas On 23/05/2013, at 10:16 AM, Michael Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > I can't help with the screen display, but I can with filtering or screening > emails. I look at them on my iPhone. It has a much more efficient system than > laptop computers. I can very quickly use the edit function to skim through > the list if senders and subjects, delete in bulk the ones I don't want and > either read and answer the others or close Mail on the phone and access the > emails via my laptop. > Preferences can be set so a bcc of any answers I send from the iPhone is > sent to me, which means it's received and kept on my laptop. > > Cheers, > > Michael Hawkins. > > On 23/05/2013, at 10:03 AM, David Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all >> >> I have a strange, very annoying problem with Mail Display on my MacBook Air. >> I was away for a fortnight up in the Kimberleys, resolutely out of touch of >> Mail, my iPhone 5 and the net. When I returned I found the problem. I have >> searched through all the menus I can find, but I can't see how to fix it. >> As well, I have an earlier model iMac with an earlier version Mail that >> works perfectly well. The MacAir has Mail 6.3 and the iMac has 4.6. I have >> updated all the software on both machines. >> >> On the iMac, Mail display defaults to a split window which shows messages at >> the top and the content of a selected message at the bottom. There is a bar >> between the two which can be moved up and down to alter the ratios. Double >> clicking a message displays it in the current full Mail window. >> >> That used to be the situation on the MacAir, but now there is no split >> window. It shows just the list of messages. To view any of the message >> apart from the subject I have to double click it. This is very time wasting >> because I can't go through the numerous mails which come in each day and >> quickly delete those I want to get rid of. I have to actually open them to >> decide whether they go into Trash. >> >> Is this the result of the latest version of Mail on Mountain Lion? Surely >> not! >> >> What have I done inadvertently to create this mess? What can I do to fix it >> and got back to a split screen for message Display. >> >> David Nicholas >> >> MacBook Air 13-inch Mid 2012 >> 2GHz Intel Core i7 >> 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 >> OS X 10.8.3 >> connected to a 27-inch Thunderbolt Screen >> Mail 6.3 (1503) >> >> iMac 11.1 27-inch about 2009 >> 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 >> 8GB 10-67 MHz DDR3 >> Mail 4.6 (1085) >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
