Mail App re-sizing concern

I Am using Window 8.1, and there is a pre installed application "Mail".
I am unable to resize the view bar of this application.
In main window left side is for folders, middle for details like sender,date and time etc. & right side show the preview of message.
I want to size the right side (preview of message) but unable to drag the slide in any of the side.
From the keyboard I can open the message in a separate window but want to adjust the size in the main window as we do in MS Outlook.

Hello Sanjaly66,
Do you mean you want to change the size of left side like drafts folders, middle index side and right detail mail side?
Based on my research, we can’t change the size, it is by design.
It is defined in the develop process.
For more information, please take a look at the following article.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj150600.aspx
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support

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Hi,
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New to this forum, have searched and not found anything in regards to my actual issue.
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I switched to the Mac in... November? and have absolutely loved it. This has been my first catastrophic experience thus far and I'm used to Windows being a part time job to manage so I'm not complaining.
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2. Frequently getting "The message from "somebody" concerning "something" has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it." error message for messages that have a. already been downloaded and b. who's accounts are showing as online. FYI, yes I do have mail.app set to download and keep a copy of the messages locally.
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At least one of the problems you have appears to be some index corruption, and I have the feeling that MailTags has a bearing on it. I don’t think you’ll be able to completely solve the problems you have without uninstalling that first...
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There isn't really anything you can do about it: closing the account isn't really worth the hassle unless you are totally swamped, because you will have to tell everyone your new address. Apple can't really do any more than they already are about spam. However changing your password on general principles is a good idea.

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Hello.
I have a question concerning email and encoding problems in the Windows Mail App in Windows 8.1. I have encountered a problem with an email I received, while reading, I see strange ASCII characters in one email. I have never encountered it in
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I don't know which forum to go to so I picked here.
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JB

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The responder on answers was a bit confused. The MSDN forums are for developers to discuss writing their own apps. We cannot help with problems using Windows or its built-in apps.
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How to set iPhoto to use yahoo webmail rather than mail.app

When emailing from within iPhoto using the email icon or via the share menu option in the task bar, mail.app launches. I prefer to use (Yahoo) webmail, rather than use an email client, so how do I change this setting?
Thx in advance.

Mansel
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*For Users of 10.5 Only*
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Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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All of a sudden, mail.app has decided that, in order to send any email, it needs to have keychain access to something called PrivateEncryptedDatak, which resides in ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS/com.apple.com<longStringOfNumbers>/
Any time I send mail, mail.app asks for the keychain password. Despite the fact that a keychain password is set up, I just need to hit "enter" and "allow" to let mail.app send the email.
Denying access results in the mail not being sent, and removing the Adobe AIR folder altogether results in a "you don't have a certificate installed" message....
The SMTP server has been set up to use password authentication....
The thing is: I did not install anything that should concern mail ....
And especially nothing that should concern @#$%^&* Adobe...
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I toggled a few settings in mail.app, but to not avail.
Anyone have an idea where I should even start to look?
Things I have been considering:
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- switch to IMAP
- not use the POP3 account on Blackberry
The setting in mail.app "delete message upon download" is not an option, as that would never show messages on the Blackberry (I think).
Help, anyone? My goal is to configure this setup so that when I delete a message on the Blackberry, it is removed also from mail.app. Thanks.

I've seen this work on Leopard.
I always thought the deciding factor is whether the setting is enabled for "retain copy on server". Hence, when you connect to a POP3 mailbox from 2 devices (desktop and smartphone), and both devices have this setting enabled, both of them should download the message, and it should be retained on the server.
(I am not concerned about read/unread marks)
If both devices are ALSO enabled to sync deletions (in both directions), the message should disappear from both devices once it was deleted from one of the two.
No?
Delay on download would be too flaky, me thinks.
I can only hypothesize that mail.app in Snow Leopard has a "feature" that ignores the delete on the server that came from the Blackberry.

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Hi,
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Is there a protocol anyone would recommend?
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> Don't see that one on my screen
so I assumed you'd uploaded it.
Well, it’s definitely there. Don’t know why you don’t
see it, but it’s available for everybody, just like
the other avatars.
Well, I'll be. You're right. Don't know why I missed it. Sorry for the goose chase.
> And an "individual mailbox" is
the same as a folder that one might
create "On My Mac?"
Custom mailboxes appear as generic blue folders in
the mailbox list, yes.
These are the ones that she has 20GB stored in.
There is another kind of
folder (white) that’s meant to be used only as a
parent folder for other folders:
Blue and white Mail folders
explained
Yeah, I get the difference. There's a big "Import" folder that is grey/white when we import her data from the exploded program.
> There was definitely file system
corruption AND there was something
rather drastic that happened to Mail.app.
Well, if there was some filesystem corruption, it
should be no surprise that an application managing 20
GB of data would be particularly affected and that
recovering that would be particularly painful...
Yup.
> Are those listed anywhere? For
those of us who don't prowl the forums all day,
sometimes these are hard to find without a friendly
link now and then. <g>
Have you tried searching? The forums search function
is there precisely for those of you who don’t prowl
the forums all day...
Generally speaking, I can often find stuff I'm looking for here. When I post that I have not, I have not. When I post in general, it means I have not found what I'm looking for and have to ask. Time is often a factor. If I had an hour to look each time, I'm sure I'd find it. I often have 15-20 minutes and when I don't... well, you get the drift.
http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?q=crash&objID
=f753&dateRange=last90days
> So what would happen if an
individual mailbox had 3GB of data in it?
Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty
> perhaps you've read something I
haven't, but it sure looks like it does to
me.
Yeah, I read that ages ago and still lost data with mailboxes that would not recover or rebuild. Thanks for the note, but there's still something that's not being said in that note. I wish I understood how messages could be so completely lost when they used to be there. I wonder if it's the Mbox format or what. In Eudora Pro, this would never happen, ever. Probably because everything was text based.
I miss Eudora but it just wouldn't handle modern, html email very well. I got tired of looking at junk that Mail.app would usually display perfectly. However, nothing can beat the level at which Eudora could manage large amounts of mail with filters, boiler plates and hundreds of customizable settings. I really look forward to a time when Apple opens up Mail.app to users who need and want more custom solutions.
If you’ve read somewhere that .Mac can synchronize
mail stored locally, then it’s you who has
read something I haven’t and that Apple doesn’t say
anywhere...
> What does "Mail accounts" sync
if not that?
Account settings.
Well, then you know more than me. I haven't had time to read up on that and it seemed like it was aimed at syncing the entire account, not just settings.
> IMAP is not the only way to do
so.
Sure it is.
I'm not attempting a debate here, just mentioning there are third party sync utilities that one can use if they want to. I have not found them terribly effective yet.
> There are other programs and
solutions
Such as? May I suggest searching in this forum for
that as well before you do something you might
regret?
It's all about time. Not knowing if there really IS a reliable answer out there, I simply do not have time to search the forums endlessly in search of an anonymous answer from someone who may or may not be "knowledgeable."
But, I wouldn't try anything with a client's data without it being fully backed up and tested. No worries there.
> The server would have to be web
based because the computers are
not always in the same building.
I have no idea what server are you talking about here
nor why do you tell me this in reply to me saying
that I don’t see why the two computers being in
different rooms would be a problem...
> we may be looking at other
solutions too since there's a desire for FileMaker
and others.
I don’t understand this either. What does FileMaker
have to do with synchronizing mail between computers?
I think that perhaps this discussion may have grown without me stating clearly that it was growing. We're talking about more than just email syncing in regards to this particular client. And we have computers that are sometimes in the same building and sometimes not. It's very complex by today's standard in technology. I'm sure it will be something very simple in a few years.
The email is easy enough to sync with IMAP solutions, it's just about how to direct a client to understand what IMAP is all about. The rest of the data, Word docs, FMP databases, and so forth is more challenging.
David, thanks for your input on this.
All the best,
Mick
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 233mghz & a G5 dual 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9) Airport Base Stations N and G, and lotsa external devices...

Mail.app caveat

Hi,
Just discovered a nasty "feature" in mail.app. If you have a POP (or IMAP I suppose) defined and configured and which contains a bunch of mails (thousands, sigh) and you happen to define the same account again in the account preferences and you remove the new account you will lose all your mails. Both sent mails and inbox will get deleted. The message lists are still there but the actual message bodies will be removed (The message from Bla bla<[email protected]> concerning “<Unknown subject>” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.).
I suppose this happens because mail.app saves the messages in Library/Mail/POP-account@[email protected] data directory. So, if you define a new mailbox with the old mailbox's credentials and remove the new mailbox, bad things happen.
Discovered this while creating a step-by-step instructions how to configure mail.app for gmail. Prolly not the most common usecase but having some kind of unique identifier in the account's mail data directory would be good. This is just bad design and will cause unnecessary grief if some poor bugger creates the account twice for some reason or does what I did.

FYI - this is the Mail, Contacts and Calendar discussions for the iPhone.
You should have been provided an error or warning message when attempting to create an additional account wirh the same user name and incoming mail server as an existing account.
When creating an email account with the Mail.app, an account named folder is created within the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account.
For a POP account with Tiger Mail, the following mbox folders are created automatically within the account named folder when the function is used by the account; INBOX.mbox, Drafts.mbox, Sent Messages.mbox, Deleted Messages.mbox and Junk.mbox when Junk Mail is set to automatic.
The mbox folders within the account named folder represent the account named mailboxes under Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk (when Junk Mail is set to automatic) in the mailboxes drawer.
This is why you cannot (or should not ignoring the warning message provided when doing so) create an additional account with the same user name and incoming mail server as an existing account.
When deleting an account with Mail, the associated account named folder within the Mail folder is also deleted at that time along with the account mailboxes within. A warning message is provided when doing so indicating this will happen.

BCC will not show recipients in Mail app - for IMAP client user

Our office iMac was just upgraded to Mavericks. The Apple mail app (which we use via IMAP to receive our gmail) will not show BCC recipients on sent mail. Not sure what other info you might need.
Yes it did work prior to Mavericks upgrade --lots of other quirks that are just user preference issues but this is by far a concern because we need to keep track of school sent emails. So far the only solution has been to use the gmail client via web interface -- hoping there is a different solution!
Thanks for any help
Joanne Bartolotti
ST Robert School
San Bruno

John -- Thank you for your reply.
When we send the email we (our user end) can see the recipients in the BCC field (good)
When the email is delivered they (the recipient) cannot see all the other emails (good)
"Susie" (who was on our original BCC list as a recipient) calls and says I did not get the email - We go to our sent folder and click on the sent email to verify the email address we used but (and here's the issue) it says "No recipients"
Prior to installing OSX Mavericks -- it listed ALL the recipients in our sent folder copy of the email (this was very helpful to us)
To date the ONLY solution has been to use the web version of gmail -- My question is (and please know I have done a number of checks on this process) Why did it work BEFORE upgrading to Mavericks and why does it not work NOW? Our school secretary is convinced it is "my fault" for upgrading the system -- I am convinced there is a user error since she NEVER lists anyone in the TO field
She will NOT use the web interface because it takes "too much time" -- for this my response is -- then fix it yourself! (Sorry 10 days left of school -- tech coordinator frustration creeping in -- tired of id10t erros -- should have waited to upgrade until no one was around and NOT tell them!)
Joanne

Get only most recent emails in Mail app?

First time posting, please go easy on me
Hi there!
On my Mac, I was trying to set up the Mail app to use one of my older emails. When I did it, it started downloading every single email I have ever sent using that email. I've had this email since about 2009, so there's a fair amount of undeleted messages.
What I'd like to do, is to be able to set it up so that I only see a few recent messages, like on my iPhone, where after a while, it just stops showing them to you and only ever actually keeps a handful on the device itself.
(That is to say, my iPhone only ever keeps about 12 emails, and periodically just kind of wipes them from the device. New ones just kind of fill in when they arrive. But the point is that the emails go away after a while.)
Is this actually possible? Or am I totally insane for even thinking this could be a possibility?
Cheers,
Drew
Mid-2011 iMac, OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
(P.S. If you were wondering, to type the , just hit ⌥+⇧+K (option+shift+K))

Hello Paul.
Be carefull when using multiple mail clients on a single POP account, that's not the way POP was designed.
Consider using IMAP instead, or be carefull with the settings of each of your email client, especially concerning the deletion policy.
Most email client can be configured to delete message from the server immediatly, after a period of time, or never.
What could happen is Outlook does retrieve mail fine, then deletes them.
When Mail comes to get the mail, it only gets the one arrived after the last Outlook retrieve, but Mail by default keeps message on the server for something like 7 days, that's why Outlook can then retrieve all messages the next time it checks your POP account, but because it deletes them all, Mail is missing some of them.
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