A slight and hardly worth it niggle with Mail

[voodoopenguin]

Mail is open permanently on my computer and is usually visible on the desktop behind everything else I'm doing at the time. This way I can see if I have new mail and where it is from the numbers by the mailboxes on the lefthand side. I only use the amber button to hide it when I'm dealing with pictures in PhotoShop or doing video editing so it isn't a distraction. For neatness (??) and less distraction I used to click below the bottom mail folder on the left and both the the windows on the right, the email list and the current email, go blank as nothing is selected. Since updating to Snow Leopard this doesn't happen and the last mailbox contents and the last email stay visible even if I click away from any folders. I can make the two right hand panels go blank by clicking on a mail folder that has subfolders but that still highlights that folder on the left.

As I said, a very slight niggle which is really just me and how I like to have my desktop, there was probably a good reason why Apple changed this. Strange really as I am not the tidiest of people in the real world.

Paul

[Drew]

Not answering your question, but I use GrowlMail to notify me of new Mail. I like it a lot

http://growl.info/documentation/growlmail.php

Another one similar is Herald.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/em...erald.html

[jdc]

I will have to see if mine does that.

I use dockstar for mail notification.

[Jimmypoo]

Paul,

in Snow 10.6.6 --- COMMAND click on ANY mailbox (any pop/imap box, not folders you are storing mail) and the windows on the right will go blank.

Command-Click again, they will re-appear.


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edit - last sentence, and "control" to "Command"

btw... I also use Growl, but I must have set it to ignore mail - but it does work with GMail notifier, which is more important to me, since I don't have Mail picking up my Gmail (now that getting it to work as a POP account takes more effort).

[Zoidberg]

Another vote for DockStar. I use Growl as well, but like DockStar's color-coded badges.

[voodoopenguin]

Thank you all for the suggestions, the Poo-meister has got me back to where I was but those other add-ons look interesting. I will look into them.

Paul