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Aaron Harnly
Letterbox is a plugin for Apple's Mail.app that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor. It rearranges the interface into three vertical columns so the message pane is to the right of the message list, rather than below.
What's New
Version 0.24b9:
- This version of Letterbox is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.7 and the build of Mail on new MacBook Pros.
- Still incompatible with some Mail plugins that also use Sparkle for auto-updating.
- The two-line combined From/Subject column doesn't play well with fonts other than Helvetica and Lucida Grande.
- Changing the preview pane position with the menu item or keyboard shortcut does not visibly change the value in the preference pane.
Version 0.24b9:
- This version of Letterbox is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.7 and the build of Mail on new MacBook Pros.
- Still incompatible with some Mail plugins that also use Sparkle for auto-updating.
- The two-line combined From/Subject column doesn't play well with fonts other than Helvetica and Lucida Grande.
- Changing the preview pane position with the menu item or more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
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Letterbox is a plugin for Apple's Mail.app that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor. It rearranges the interface into three vertical columns so the message pane is to the right of the message list, rather than below.
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jasimon9 reviewed on 18 Sep 2011
I agree with many of the postings here, that the Lion version of mail, while giving the 3 column view with one hand, has made the middle column useless. What a disappointment!
Problems with the new middle view:
- abandoning columns makes sorting by a column nearly useless. You can still sort, but it has no value as you cannot see the results of the sort.
- not having nice columns makes the info harder to see
- I am thinking that they decided to adopt the design used by many smart phones, without realizing that they are severely degrading usefulness
- the often-mentioned lost of the bolding function, which no longer works except in classic view
So as many others have said, the classic-plus-letterbox design is far more useable. Even with the difficulty Letterbox has always seemed to have in sizing the third pane (either too big or invisible in many cases, unless you resize the whole window to get it to behave). For this reason I am downgrading the stability rating.
So I am another one who is eagerly awaiting the new Letterbox for Lion, as I don't expect they will want to fix it at Apple.
But in case you are listening Apple: it would be really best if there was a "classic-middle" that kept the new features for the third column, but left the middle column in classic mode.
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Pugwash reviewed on 04 Aug 2011
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Etang4luv@earthlink.net-Eme# reviewed on 03 Aug 2011
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Unfortunately, it's either that or the classic vertical layout, which is even worse. I also held off on Lion for a bit for various reasons, which included Letterbox no longer working...but ended up having to upgrade for other reasons.
Thanks do go to the author for making a great little plugin for free, and you'd have many appreciative users if you do have time to update it for Lion!
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Carina_st reviewed on 01 Aug 2011
To do that you have to switch back to the classic view with the old layout. But without letterbox this classic view sucks too. So now I can choose between not being able to properly see which of my messages are unread or using an ugly layout. Not sure which of these is the lesser evil.
I hope they fix this.
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Tribtris reviewed on 22 Jul 2011
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vinjah reviewed on 27 Jun 2011
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Cerebrl reviewed on 01 Apr 2011
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Luke_armstrong reviewed on 22 Mar 2011
You do, however, need to check for updates whenever Apple updates Mail and disables bundles (it doesn't update itself and plist is difficult to find).
Once you use it you will wonder how you managed without it!
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Hendricx reviewed on 11 Mar 2011
Finger crossed for the new Lion Mail version though.
5 stars all the way for being free.
The document “Letterbox.mailbundle” could not be opened. TextEdit cannot open files of this type.
I've had previous version of LB, which worked fine and I want it back.
This is a new one on me.
Thanks for the help.
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SupportedPluginCompatibilityUUIDs
BDD81F4D-6881-4A8D-94A7-E67410089EEB
857A142A-AB81-4D99-BECC-D1B55A86D94E
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the same works though for widemail plugin as well ( i prefer it)
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The requested URL /projects/letterbox/downloads/Letterbox-0.24b6.dmg was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.54 Server at harnly.net Port 80
I am running Mac OS 10.6.3
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Now as long as Letterbox.mailbundle is in the Bundles folder it should work. I don't know if this is your problem. You said you installed per instructions, so you've probably already done this, but I think it's worth mentioning just in case.
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So my question is whether this UUID is always the same for a given installation, or if it's uniquely generated for each anonymous data send. (I'm not okay with sending data if the UUID stays the same, because it's really not anonymous anymore at that point.)
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But seeing how BOTH bundles did it, I am guessing it is some sort of very odd behavior of Mac OS X.
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This is the tread I mentioned...
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/972003839731
is the problem I was referring to. Instead of a reply, this became a new thread.
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