Saving mail view options

Hi, My Mail has changed the view setting it uses when it opens (I do not recall having changed anything). If I put the view back to my preferred column settings, there appears to be no way of saving them.. Can someone advise on how I can?
thanks
MST

Hi Mark.
Mail has some glitches when it comes to preserve column settings. Note also that Mail stores those settings globally for all mailboxes, so you can't customize them differently for each one, except for small variations such as the sort order or whether messages should be organized by threads.
If Mail refuses to preserve your changes when a particular mailbox is selected, try doing it with a different mailbox. In particular, if you have more than one account, try with the Inbox aggregate and also with any of the individual account mailboxes in that group.

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