3-column display (or, "I want my WideMail back")

To me, the biggest short-coming of mail.app is the lack of a 3-column display option. I can't believe that Apple neglected to add this - especially in light of Exchange support (do they think anyone coming over from Entourage might be expecting a standard view that has been around since the 90's?). And especially since Apple doesn't have a non-wide-screen product in the line. Or am I missing a setting in mail.app that will allow me to change the orientation?
The option I used under Leopard was WideMail. But it does not work in Snow Leopard. The other one out there that I've been able to find is Letterbox. But no Snow Leopard support there, either. Both say "coming" but neither are here.
Are there any other options out there that work with Snow Leopard?

Camelot wrote:
Because it makes poor utilization of the available space and forces users to go out of their way to be productive.
Either way you end up with poor space utilization and you see why I consider it a poor UI implementation, and something that millions of users have just come to accept as being the way things are, without regard of the practical implications of poor design.
This can just as easily be turned around to argue the other perspective (pun intended).
You make some gross assumptions to try to argue your point - things like "most users" and then you compare that back to you personal "survey of one".
The real point here is that different people work in different ways. For example, I use my e-mail inbox as somewhat of a "to do" list or my action items. When I take care of an item, I then file it under a sub-folder in "Saved". In this config, I need & want to have a long list of in-box items. And using WideMail, I set up a 2-line display to get all of the relevant info that I need. To me, a superior layout for my style & need.
But I am not arrogant enough to accuse "poor interface design" nor beaten enough to say that "millions of users have just come to accept as being the way things are". To me, you are wrong in both cases. Since almost all other mail clients support the 3-column display, I submit that at least the OPTION of such a layout is superior. And as for those millions of people that have just given up & accepted things, well I think the existence of other e-mail options says something about that. You might want to consider that tens of millions of people use e-mail clients with that 'inferior' 3-column display - typically the default.
Choice, Camelot, is the point here. This isn't a binary discussion of "this is better than that so just become one of the 'millions' that have given up". Choice.
I think we all appreciate your passion for your preferred layout. I just wish you would have the flexibility to understand why others prefer and desire otherwise and A) chill out on the false bravado of why we're 'wrong' IYHO and B) not hijack a thread that was supposed to be about any other options to alter the current 2-column layout.

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