In Mail, Why can't I see the "To:" field in my inbox column anymore?

I'm guessing that since the message field has limited space, they elected to not show the TO or From.

If you have more than one account and need to know what account a message is from or to, then you can elect to show the Mailbox in the message list.

Well, the Spam Folder (Junk) should have a subfolder for each different account. If account 2 gets a junk message, it will put it to the subfolder under Junk of that account. When you click on the Junk Mailbox, the messages will show the account the messages were sent to (if you are showing mailbox in the list). That's about the same as looking at the to field in that instance. For that matter, you can just select the individual account folder.

If you're using the Classic View (Mail/Preferences/Viewing), go to your InBox and right click on the column bar; then select 'To' in the list. That should the 'To' column along with From, Subject, Date Received, etc.

I like the new layout also and see what you're talking about with Show To/Cc......

I can't answer how to do what you want without using the Classic View. Maybe someone with more experience with Lion Mail can help out.

Doesn't show that in the message fields. If it's the inbox, the name "from" appears. It you're looking in the sent mailbox, then the name in the message list is "sent to". Trash shows "from". When you click on the message, all the fields should show in the header.

If it's in the Spam mailbox, then Spam Mailbox would show there.

In my example above, I'm looking in the Sent Mailbox as a whole (main mailbox, not the subfolder account) and it's showing the account I sent from. If I had sent messages from my other accounts, it would show those also. The only purpose of showing the mailbox in the message list is to know which of your accounts it's to or from when you have multiple accounts. If you only have one mail account, then it provides no use to have Mailbox shown in the message list.

When you are looking at the Sent Mail, then the message list shows the person who it was sent to.

All other mailboxes show the person who the message was sent from in the list.

Unless you're moving recieved mail and sent mail to a common mailbox, then it's not a big deal.

Maybe Apple will change it in the future to show the actual Fields in the message list.

I'd like to pick up on the overall topic here. I use mail.app with various accounts and I set up On My Mac-mailboxes to sort mails by task. These mailboxes contain mails from and to various senders and addressees. As this discussion made clear, the short info in the center column does show the sender, however, it doesn't display the addressee. In a case like mine, this makes the new mail.app layout almost unusable. (To organize by conversation isn't an option, either. It only shows whoever happens to have started the discussion.) Presently, using the classic layout seems to be the only solution. But is there realy no other way? Something we miss? It seems so unplausible. Why should we not want to quickly find mails that went to a certain addressee?

Thanks

Well from what I see, that's the only option. The only mailbox that will show the addressee (sent to) is the Sent Mailbox. All others will only show the sender.

If you really need to see that, then you will probably be happier in Classic View.

Or, try the search feature when looking for a specific person. That will find all email to them no matter what folder they are in.

Someone else may have a better solution.