David, I can't help with the screen display, but I can with filtering or screening emails. I look at them on my iPhone. It has a much more efficient system than laptop computers. I can very quickly use the edit function to skim through the list if senders and subjects, delete in bulk the ones I don't want and either read and answer the others or close Mail on the phone and access the emails via my laptop. Preferences can be set so a bcc of any answers I send from the iPhone is sent to me, which means it's received and kept on my laptop.
Cheers, Michael Hawkins. On 23/05/2013, at 10:03 AM, David Nicholas <david...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Hello all > > I have a strange, very annoying problem with Mail Display on my MacBook Air. > I was away for a fortnight up in the Kimberleys, resolutely out of touch of > Mail, my iPhone 5 and the net. When I returned I found the problem. I have > searched through all the menus I can find, but I can't see how to fix it. As > well, I have an earlier model iMac with an earlier version Mail that works > perfectly well. The MacAir has Mail 6.3 and the iMac has 4.6. I have > updated all the software on both machines. > > On the iMac, Mail display defaults to a split window which shows messages at > the top and the content of a selected message at the bottom. There is a bar > between the two which can be moved up and down to alter the ratios. Double > clicking a message displays it in the current full Mail window. > > That used to be the situation on the MacAir, but now there is no split > window. It shows just the list of messages. To view any of the message > apart from the subject I have to double click it. This is very time wasting > because I can't go through the numerous mails which come in each day and > quickly delete those I want to get rid of. I have to actually open them to > decide whether they go into Trash. > > Is this the result of the latest version of Mail on Mountain Lion? Surely > not! > > What have I done inadvertently to create this mess? What can I do to fix it > and got back to a split screen for message Display. > > David Nicholas > > MacBook Air 13-inch Mid 2012 > 2GHz Intel Core i7 > 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 > OS X 10.8.3 > connected to a 27-inch Thunderbolt Screen > Mail 6.3 (1503) > > iMac 11.1 27-inch about 2009 > 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 > 8GB 10-67 MHz DDR3 > Mail 4.6 (1085) > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
