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catalina mail column view

In the new Mac osX CataIina I cannot find a way to change the columns viewed in Mail. You used to be able to change the field widths and add columns from the View/Columns menu. How can I accomplish this now?


Also, what does the black background TO next to the email title mean?




Posted on Oct 7, 2019 3:26 PM

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Hallelujah, Mail Column View, as it was, is back with Big Sur! I joined the Beta Program and installed the Beta version of Big Sur and I can confirm that the column view is restored to its original grandeur. Any information that you desire is available and sortable by the same.

Maybe Apple did realize they made a blunder with Catalina and maybe they do listen to us. Possibly it was a major software change and took a lot to restore it.

I only wish they would have let us know they planned to restore Mail so we would have not had to spend so much time writing to this post and sending service requests. Also, in the introductory clip for Big Sur, it would be nice if they highlighted the return of the column view as originally designed.


A message to Apple:

"Please do not be so distant from your loyal customers and fans!!!". You could have responded to this thread to give us hope.


Posted on Aug 8, 2020 7:24 PM

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Jul 27, 2020 3:43 PM in response to jamapple

Jamapple wrote on Jan 23, 2020 [quote] Here's another kicker - move your SENT MAIL to another folder, and the TO: field disappears, basically rendering it USELESS.


I archive my SENT mail by year. So now all it says is FROM: (me), subject, and date. I contacted APPLE SUPPORT and they had no clue.


THIS IS A HUGE ERROR on Apple's part! [/quote]


#BRINGBACKCUSTOMCOLUMNS

Jul 27, 2020 3:47 PM in response to MikeE3

@jamapple ... I very much agree with your issue. For years I've used the same technique to archive sent messages to off-line folders in Mac Mail. Now even though there is the ability to sort by "TO" ... the "TO" field does not show up. Totally worthless when looking for something sent to someone last year, etc.

Jul 27, 2020 3:59 PM in response to MikeE3

Sorry for beating this dead horse, but we should be thinking twice (or more!) before updating system software. Listening to all these complaints and having used Mail for my business for many many years, I did not update from High Sierra to Catalina and will NOT be doing so. Why do Apple users think that every update is an "improvement"? (a rhetorical question) In fact, if you haven't already, check out the so-called "improvements" with Big Sur.....nearly all cosmetic, hyping all kinds of nonsense changes that don't help me in my business at all. What a waste!

Jul 27, 2020 5:59 PM in response to Sokyle2

Our business recently attempted to purchase several iMACs for our office, but under the condition that they come installed with the OS prior to Catalina--specifically so we would have an earlier version of Apple Mail. Apple wouldn't do this for us, so we didn't make the purchase.


So just a heads up, you can't purchase a new MAC with a previous OS installed. You can roll back to a prior OS if you have your computer backing up to a Time Capsule or something similar.


But yea I hear you--we are in a record keeping business and the archive function changes, which don't allow us to see who we emailed and when, are not compliant for what is legally required of us by law. Thus, Apple Mail is no longer able to be used by our business simply because of this one simple, incomprehensible, feature removal. The same is the case for anybody in real estate, law, medicine, finance, or any fiduciary duty field. Any such businesses can no longer use Apple Mail for archiving as this one feature change makes it incompatible with record keeping laws.


You would think that would get the attention of the higher ups at Apple, but here we are--9 months after Catalina with no fix in sight, no responses by Apple to our issues other than to delete our posts, and no official explanation why this was changed.

Jul 27, 2020 6:29 PM in response to Sokyle2

I've been BCCing myself for the past half dozen years or so, because too many of my outgoing messages never arrived. And yet Mail always showed that the email was successfully sent, even though it never got through, and I never received anything from Apple about it. So after doing searches and experimentation, I eventually discovered unequivocally, that Apple was censoring my outgoing email. Email subject matter was being arbitrarily scrutinized.

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