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I know similar topics have been posted, but most of them quickly digress to other issues. My issue is that column widths in mailboxes keep changing. This happens if I go from an Inbox folder to a Sent folder and back to the Inbox folder. It also happens after I do a search.
My Inbox mailbox columns are: flag, unread (which you have to have), attachments, from, subject, date received, date sent, size. The mailbox is sorted by date received.
If I change to a sent mailbox then go back to my Inbox, the date received column is much wider than I set it. If I do a search then go back to my Inbox, the attachments column is much wider and the date received and date sent columns have changed widths as well.
I seems as if this should be a fairly simple task for mail to save column widths for each mailbox. Other email programs do it? Why can't Mail?
G5 1.8 gHz SP   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Mail 2.0.7

Which mailboxes are we actually talking about here? Are individual account mailboxes that lose their viewing settings or are the Inbox, Sent, etc. aggregates that lose them? If the latter, that could mean there is something wrong with the preferences file, and I don't know of a way to try to fix the problem other than re-creating that file:
1. Quit Mail.
2. Make a backup copy of the HOME/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to HOME/Library/Preferences/. Locate the file com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
You'll have to set up your non-Mac accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don't. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in HOME/Library/Mail/ when done.
You'll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it's enabled.

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