OS High Sierra Mail Preferences Window Cannot Maximize (No Green Button). Help?

AppleUsr12 wrote:

OS High Sierra Mail Preferences Window Cannot Maximize (No Green Button). Help?

Only the Close button is available on all Preference Panes. Some have an active Minimize button, but I have not noticed any with a functional zoom/full screen option.

As per this article Manage windows on the desktop - Apple Support

See In resize and minimise window section .

Some windows can’t be moved or resized.

You can't maximise the mail preferences window .

I have the opposite problem: can't minimise - the preferences window is almost 36" wide, and disappears off of my iMac screen. Can't see the sidebar and account details at the same time as the three header buttons ...... All other Mail windows are fine.

I don't believe you are correct. It's only with the High Sierra update that manually resizing the Preferences window in Mail.app is not possible. I too have a number of complex signatures, customized for each of my clients, and the inability to view/edit them in anything but a tiny square is supremely annoying.

Well here we are 48 hours later:I've had no answer, and done nothing other than delete all signatures, since there was a suggestion that they could have a bearing on it all, and suddenly, all is back to normal ….

I have, therefore, begun to test by gradually restoring the signatures to see what happens. The only one I had which was more than a few characters was the dreaded official disclaimer which we’re all now forced to append to any business email - I’ll leave that till last!

Yes, deleted all, closed out Mail.app and rebooted, and on relaunch, all returned to normal. (Still no green button, though, but no need, as the splash screen is the size it has always been .....)

Just repeated with my MBP, and same result!

The signatures in question have been unchanged for at least five years, so I can only assume it's a bug in 10.13.1, although it could have been an issue previously - I don't often open Mail preferences, and it was only because I was adding an address that I stumbled across it.

WRONG! I just tested this on a Mac running Sierra, and the Mail Preferences window CAN INDEED be resized, as was true for all previous versions of macOS/OS-X as well. Apple DISABLED this capability in High Sierra for no (known) good reason. This makes it extremely difficult to view items like "Signatures" the way they will look in an e-mail. Once again, Apple gets STUCK ON STUPID.

CORRECT!

Mail Preferences window could ALWAYS be resized in previous versions of macOS/OS-X before HS! Way to BREAK SOMETHING ELSE, Apple! Maybe HS should have "cooked" as a Beta for a bit longer...

"It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature!"

This is very frustrating to me as well Apple did this with Disk Utility for a Yosemite I think it was and thankfully that has been changed back to allow users to resize. I don't know what they they think the benefit is of not letting the user adjust the size, all the accounts are cut off and it makes it difficult to see what I need to see with plug-ins.

Additionally I lost all my signatures for all my email addresses when upgrading to HS. No coming back according to apple. Could have gone to back ups but don't have the time. If I had of known I could have taken copies so really annoyed.

Back tour question the small window is very vexing - please fix - was it designed for the original Mac?

AppleUsr12 wrote:

Never not been one in at least 10 years.

That is incorrect.

Screen from Yosemite…

As you can see, the Grow and Hide buttons are disabled.

AFAICR there has never been a green button in the Mail preferences window.

Only Apple can change that.

Send feedback: http://www.apple.com/feedback

Weird. Try pressing and holding a Shift key while launching Mail from Applications or the Dock. That will open Mail in windowed mode (not full screen) and with no message selected.