can mail preview pane be moved to right

If you are actually using Mac OS X 10.7, as your profile indicates, that is the default appearance of Mail. The message pane IS on the right side, unless you have gone into Mail -> Preferences -> Viewing and checked the "Use classic layout" box.

I don't know that there is a way to do that in Lion. There was a plugin called Letterbox for that for previous versions of Mail, but I would imagine the new version of Mail broke it.

bazporte, you have my absolute, unqualified, 100% agreement.

I decided when I got this new mac to convert myself to the new and improved Lion mail experience. After 6 months I am switching back to Classic view because I missed too many import messages in Apple's cute attempt to group and associate related messages and collapse information under "see more". That's how I stumbled onto this thread. My decision to embrace the new mail style is consistent with my train of decisions to switch to apple after using PCs between 1983 and 2009. Because I live in both worlds today (I develop business software on MS platforms using VMWare on my MacBook Pro 17'') I can't help but compare technologies side-by-side. It's in my face day in and day out. Classic view allows me to readily receive and review and search for important messages. Because I have a wide screen....remind me again why no reading pane on the right?

Hi

I am in New Zealand and have read with interest your statement re preview pane etc. (on my mac OSX 10.6.8

I have just installed the latest software update and suddenly I have lost the abilty to have my preview pane on the RHS and also my emails now come in with no line separations as before also. I liked the blue/white lines to show each message on the summary page but now just a white page with messages shown.

I have tried installing the latest letterbox fix but no joy. I also have no classic box to check under Mail -> Preferences -> Viewing . I thought this might be there and helpful but nothing here.

Also preview pane not showing under view in mail. Can you help.

was happy before with the appearance but not now.

Regards

Hi clairdemoon, bazorte,

I'm scratching my head a little here - if the issue in favour of using the Classic Layout is just to avoid 'Conversation' organisation (i.e. the grouping of emails as clairdemoon describes), then the simple answer is the stick with the new view and the RHS preview pane, but with 'Organize by Conversation' switched off, which is accessed from the VIEW drop down menu in Mail.

Hopefully this helps?

If not, I'd be really interested to learn what other benefits the 'classic' view allows for (or, perhaps better, used to allow for?

Prior to Lion I too was a big fan of Letterbox, but I'm now finding the new views are just fine for me.

To have classic layout with a preview pane on the right, see:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3194217?start=60&tstart=0