Mail messages open in new window

Recently when a notification comes in for Mail, if I click on the banner notification or the notication in Notification Centre, the new mail message opens in a new window instead of just going to the mail app and showing me the message there.
As far as I am aware I have not changed any settings. Could anyone help me change this back please?
Many thanks.

Don't forget to turn off banner notification for Mail in System Preferences!
http://www.noproblemmac.com/blog/2014/02/27/herald-smart-mail-notification-softw are-on-the-mac/
Dajanis wrote:
I've tried Herald (http://erikhinterbichler.com/apps/herald/) but it doesn't work at all for me even if the latest version is supposed to work with Mac OS X 10.9.2

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When I open an email in a seperate window, I only get the header section of the email, and it always seems to open in the lower left of the desktop. I am able to move the message around the screen, and I am able to re-size the message window.
When I do this, subsegquent messages open fully.Then when I print a message, the next message I open is shrunk and appears in the lower left hand corner of the desktop.
Is there a solution?
Thanks!

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
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If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (triple-click, copy, and paste):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
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How can I compose mail messages in a new window?

Hi,
When I click on compose new mail, the editor comes up to write the message as expected.
But it is not a page that I can minimise or move around. I cannot flick between the message I am composing and other emails.
I cannot see a setting for this, am I missing it?
Its as if Mail will not allow me to do anything else whilst composing.
I could get around it by having another Mail screen open but that seems a bit daft.
Any ideas?
Steve

Are you using the menu Mail > File > New Message?
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i
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from my son, in mail version 4.5,
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*Firefox 12.0.x: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
Uninstall your current Firefox version, if possible.
*Do NOT remove personal data when you uninstall your current Firefox version, because all profile folders will be removed and you will also lose your personal data like bookmarks and passwords from profiles of other Firefox versions.
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I had a computer expert try everything and we cannot get it to open.

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== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I got my new dell laptop four weeks ago with window 7 installed

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if Firefox is already running and click on any link in Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. A message box pops up and I have to hit OK to close it.
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[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox%20hangs#w_firefox-hangs-when-you-quit-it Firefox hangs when you close it]

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First of all, this is completely normal behavior, although it's a bit irritating, I know. What happens is that when you close Firefox, despite the window disappearing right there and then, Firefox keeps running for a little bit until the whole closing procedure is completed. This can take a fraction of a second on fast computers, or can take a few seconds on slow computers or when Firefox is storing a large session (if you save your tabs). All you have to do is wait a bit until Firefox closes, and then open it again.
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Firefox 4.0 will reduce by 97% the time it takes firefox.exe to close, so this problem will be basically erased for Firefox's next version.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3559/
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