Can I set the position of the new mail window?

Hi.

I Think I got the solution...

1) Open the Mail.app

2) Open a new message window

3) Place the message window where you would like it to be

4) Press [CMD] + [q] to close the whole thing and thereby "save" positions of Mail.app windows

The above solution made my Macbook Pro 10.6.7 remember where to place new message windows.

/Martin

Doesn't work here. It might appear to for a short time, but every time you open a new message window, it migrates just a little. Each new message window is offset down and to the right by a few (10?) pixels, bumping back to the top when it hits the bottom of the screen and back to the left when it hits the right side of the screen.

This will only save the location of the current window, so when you open the application again they are restored as you had them; however, new windows will not stay in the same spot and may migrate around, especially if you open more than one.

Sorry! I hadn't tested it enough. It has bothered me for some time, so I was just so happy that it seemed to work. If there was something like a virtual beer, I would have bought you one.

/Martin

Perhaps something is corrupt that is causing bad behavior for some users and so my comments are unhelpful, but here's some more data to add to this discussion: My Mail.app behaves as George Coghill described above, subsequent message windows open where the previous window was open.

For example- Close all Mail.app windows so that only the main "Message Viewer" window is open (basically, don't have any emails that you're in the middle of drafting open). Open a new message, adjust the position as you wish, then close it. When you open another new message, does it have the same position as the one you just adjusted? It should.

However, for me, sometimes it would be off by a few pixels as Thomas A Reed described above. I realized that this was because I had another compose window open in the background. So as you troubleshoot, make sure no other compose windows are open, to remove one complication and help isolate the issue.

Side note: in cases where the original window's height fully extended across the display, the new window would be shifted over to the right only, but not down at all as some apps do (like Mac Word, annoyingly). Another note: if you maximize the original window, subsequent windows also open maximized and unshifted.

A corollary to the paragraph immediately above is that if you open say 3 new windows, the second one will be shifted and the third one will be even more shifted. Let's say you send all 3, and now open a new window, it has the position of the 3rd window. Annoying. Yes, it would be nice if it always opened new windows in the exact same position, but Apple likely won't do this since people will get confused and think they lost the window if it doesn't do the shifting. I guess the take-away is draft one message at a time or maximize your composition windows, otherwise it's going to move :/

A band-aid solution: When a window isn't positioned how you like it, a quick/simple way to reposition it is with apps like Moom (my favorite), Cinch, Divvy, SizeUp, etc. While I'm at it I should mention RightZoom, which makes the green zoom button behave like the Windows maximize button, and Cordless Dog Stay, which is great if you connect/disconnect your laptop to a screen causing the window positions to always get disturbed between displays.

Hi there, I think I've worked out how to fix this problem...

Open Mail, then close the "viewer window" (so that you have no windows open at all). Next, select File>new message and a window opens. Position this window where you would like it to be. Close this window.

Each time you click File>new message or "command-N" the window should now open in the same place!

Enjoy!

Regards,

Kym

Actually, it looks like since the time this topic started more than two years ago, something has changed. The new message window no longer migrates all over the place for me in Mountain Lion. No closing of the viewer window required. Perhaps proof positive that Apple reads feedback...

This is still a problem here, and nothing I've tried will stop each new window from migrating down/right a few pixels each time a new message window is opened. This is the only email client on the planet that does this and it's a real PITA for those of us who like to keep window positioned where "we" want it...not where Apple wants it.

I wouldn't be so bothered by this flaw if each "new message" window were just a few pixels down and to the right of the previous one. What happens in my case is that the "new message" windows (including replies and forwards) frequently open at random spots on the screen, forcing me to reposition them each time. This seems to be related to a similar problem that I've noticed: when I double-click on an incoming message, the window opens in the lower left corner of my screen and in a truncated size, so that I have to both reposition and resize the window repeatedly. We're now in version 6.2 of Mail and OS 10.8.2. How can Apple possibly justify its failure to fix such fundamental problems as these?

I have this exact problem on my 2010 MB Pro with ML. I haven't found a solution, yet. If I resize the window, it will work for a while, but will end up reverting to the truncated window after a period of time.