catalina mail column view

Great News!

Here are the column choices in 10.14.6. And yes, at that time different mailboxes could have differences in columns, but I'm not clear on how much independence was.

Hip, Hip Hooray!

reports that the upgrade is bricking some mid-2014 Macbook Pros. Just my luck, that’s what I have. I guess I’ll just have to wait for Mac OS Long Beach.

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Hip, Hip Hooray Kernow12 and Apple!!!

Lots to be grateful for this Thanksgiving Weekend!

#ItsAboutTime

I'm glad it's back. I think that's back because of our comments. So I'm also glad it pays to speak up, even at a large company like Apple. A compliment for us and for Apple.

How about retroactively returning it to Catalina for those of us who cannot upgrade due to legacy software issues and equipment?

This would be a very good idea, especially given the major bluetooth bug in Big Sur that is preventing people from connecting headphones.

I am using Outlook client on my iMac w/Catalina and the web-based email host on my MacBook Air w/Catalina (too lazy to set up Outlook twice). It will be a while before I upgrade (?) to Big Sur.

FRUSTRATING indeed. As someone else commented, removing the ability to select and view multiple column headers and sort by them individuality seems to be a poor decision. It's such a useful tool and while you can accomplish the same sorting functionality it's only on a header name by header name basis.....#AppleUsedToLeadTheWay #WhatHappeedToApplesInnovation

@maryml, in the top left-hand corner of your inbox, it says "Sort by #### >" except the last symbol is a downwards arrow and the #### is the filed you can sort by. If you click on the arrow, you can then select 'To' and your messages will sort accordingly. The problem identified by this message string is that you used to be able to SEE both the To and From columns, and each column was labelled (e.g. subject, attachment, date). And now these have disappeared. Even when I sort by 'To', I can't actually see who is the 'To. So frustrating.

Foolish, foolish! And, what was the problem this change solved?

Clearly, the designers did not think to survey heavy users of this tool (Apple mail) before modifying (i.e. removing) a critical "ease of use" feature. Screwing with long standing ergonomics will frustrate many, particularly the long time users.

This is the very feature users of Gmail complain of not having. Big step back, down, out, whatever...

Shout out to RICKRACK305 for providing the link: https://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html (thank you)

Apple, please provide the ability to revert to the classic features in the mail program

1) I can't change the column width in MacMail inbox with Catalina

2) I can't delete the column that tells me that an email is in my inbox. Duh. That's a waste of real estate in my inbox.

3) I can't turn off the swiping feature, which is a phone feature that drives me nuts on my Mac.

3) I can't delete the first column, which is blank, whose purpose I can't figure out.

In other words, Catalina has provided less functionality and less ability to customize what I want.

i just moved from mail to outlook and transferred 10.000+ mails from archives in less than an hour using "mail extractor pro".

smooth. an extra 50$ on top of the microsoft license, and it seems to be worth every penny.

uslsoftware who made that little wonder must be so glad for apple launching catalina.

so must microsoft.

and that might be the point: sometimes it is very good business to fix it even if it ain't broken.

apple makes money on hardware (and selling us content as music, books etc.) they do not make money updating, maintaining software as mailprograms, browsers, spreadsheets etc. securityupdates - business support... ; it´s not apples business. better let their hardware customers free to buy good software from others, and keep to the good business making money on a brand and hardware.

then they of course have to bring a browser, mailclient etc. but not anything serious you could use as a pro.

the pro is now about the look and the price tag.

( sent from my 2 days old iMacPro.. :-)

i used thunderbird as a pro from 2009 to 2017.

it is smooth and easy going.

if you have an exchange account you have to pay for ExQuilla or simillar to get it going.

do not expect flawless integration in calendar etc.

two years ago i moved from thunderbird to "mail" and it worked fine until catalina.

now it's time for outlook - not that i am happy about it, but it seems best choice to me.