Viewing messages in mail.

How can I view mail messages in a smaller window? when I open a message it takes up the whole screen of the iMac. It is also very small writing. I tried clicking on the green button. This works on my mac book pro but not on my iMac. When I try zoom to make the text bigger it does not wrap around.

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Unable to view messages in Mail

For some reason, I can't view any of the messages in my Inbox. There is a small number in the upper right corner of the Mail icon in the Dock which has always indicated a number of unread messages. When I open the Mail program, the same number of unread messages is listed in the Mailboxes column beside the Inbox, yet none of them appear when I click on the Inbox icon.
Any ideas??????

Well, I'm not exactly sure what happened but I think I've got it fixed for now.
FWIW, I went to Mail -> Preferences and clicked on the Accounts -> Advanced tabs. The "Enable this Account" box was checked just like always. I unchecked it, saved the changes, and exited Mail.
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How can I view my messages in mail, I only can see incoming emails, but the the screen where the message must be visible is empty. Also attachements are nog visible. These messages are visible on my Iphone. thanks

How can I view my messages in mail, I only can see incoming emails, but the the screen where the message must be visible is empty. Also attachements are nog visible. These messages are visible on my Iphone. thanks

And attached is a screen grab showing selected e-mails in the Inbox...the white space below are e-mails too!

Mail View Message Best Alternative

SInce upgrading my home iMac to Lion, Mail on this computer and on Powerbook with Snow Leopard (because I still want to look at my Quicken 2007 stuff) do not show messages in mail via best alternative unless I go into the view menu for each menu to select best alternative. They show all the links which historically would load automatically.
Cannot even see attachments. l also use mobile me, and have not as yet activated the cloud. How can I get back to viewing all my messages in best form automatically? I presume this needs to be done via terminal but do not know....
Thanks in advance.
Julius

the recommendation to run
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText 0
did not work for me (Mail.app 5.3, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5)
Other sources suggest
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool FALSE
This did not work for me either.
In frustration, I opened ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist in Xcode and searched for PreferPlainText. It seems to (now?) want either YES or NO as a value.
I set it to NO and saved, then relaunched Mail.app.
HTML (Rich Text) mail is back.
I still want to know what I did to make it disappear!
Message was edited by: vlbcfcl

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When I receive messages I would like to see the complete From information i.e.:
[email protected]
What I see is
Imaniceguy
There is no way I can find to show the complete From info.
The View->Message->sub menu is completely grayed out. Hovering the cursor over the From field shows nothing, view and printing a message likewise shows nothing.
So how do I view the complete From information?

Following up on my previous post.
To see if this issue is isolated to a user rather than the system I created a new user account called "test-user." I logged in as "test-user" and started Mail. I created a new account by entering all the correct account information.
I then have the same issues as my original user account.
- cannot open a mailbox viewer
- cannot create a new email message
- cannot quit mail. Need to force-quit
The fact that this is happening to a brand new user account tells me that this issue is happening at the System level.
Does anyone know the complete list of System related files that are associated with Mail?
Furthermore, the complete list of User related files that are associated with Mail would also be helpful.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for any insight, wisdom, or guidance!

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Not sure what you mean by "within iCloud mail" but if you can't view your iCloud mail inside the Mail app on your phone, go to Settings>iCloud, turn Mail off, then after a few seconds turn Mail back on again.

Why do I have to use View Message Best alternative to view graphic?

Often in the last 3 years, back to when I was using Leopard, Mail messages would appear in my mailbox which obviously contained graphics or pictures but which didn't show up in the email. (There would be paperclip icon in the right column.)
By going to View>Message>Best Alternative I can get the picture to show up.
Why do I need to do this? I recall in earlier versions of Mail this never happened.
Is there a way in Mail Preferences to change that? I can't find any setting that relates to that.
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Outlook Connector - Unable to view messages in IMAP folders

Hi,
I am trying to get the outlook connector (version 7.2.310.1) and it is fine for collecting mail, calenders etc.
The problem I am having is with IMAP folders.
I have a message rule set up through the webmail view that moves mail with [-SPAM-] in the subject (picked up by our edge filters) into the Junk Email folder. This rule works fine, I can view the messages in there through webamil, if i log in over IMAP using thunderbird or whatever I can see the messages...
The problem is that through the outlook connector, there are no messages in there. The folder exists, I can copy messages in there using outlook and they are visible, but all the mail that is there already is effectively invisible?
Any ideas or have I just missed something?
Josh

Hi,
I have a message rule set up through the webmail view
that moves mail with [-SPAM-] in the subject (picked
up by our edge filters) into the Junk Email
folder. This rule works fine, I can view the
messages in there through webamil, if i log in over
IMAP using thunderbird or whatever I can see the
messages...
The problem is that through the outlook connector,
there are no messages in there. The folder exists, I
can copy messages in there using outlook and they are
visible, but all the mail that is there already is
effectively invisible?Are the messages you copy via Outlook visible via IMAP (Thunderbird) or webmail?
Have you tried re-syncing the folder, to do this:
1. Within Outlook, right-click on the folder
2. Select "Properties"
3. Click on the "Advanced" tab
4. Click on "Empty and resync" button.
Regards,
Shane.

Unable to view messages present in inbox/sent/draf...

Phone: Nokia N8
Unable to view messages available in inbox/Sent items/draft & even reports If i send a SMS to a group say group has more than 5 contacts and click on send button.
No message appears when i open sent items, reports or inbox after messages are sent.
To view messages again i have to restart my phone.

Well, I'm not exactly sure what happened but I think I've got it fixed for now.
FWIW, I went to Mail -> Preferences and clicked on the Accounts -> Advanced tabs. The "Enable this Account" box was checked just like always. I unchecked it, saved the changes, and exited Mail.
Then I went back to Mail -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Advanced, checked the "Enable this Account" box once again and saved the changes. Now it works just fine!

After OS upgrade 10.7.3 - 10.7.5 imap messages in mail keep loading

Hi,
i updated osx yesterday from 10.7.3 to 10.7.5 and now apple mail is acting up.
I have several accounts in mail. Two are imap accounts of my own domains. Others are imap googlemail accounts.
Since the upgrade, i cannot view messages older than a certain age anymore from the selfhosted accounts.
On the webserver, the messages are deleted a month after they have been donwloaded to apple mail.
If i select a message older than "today" as in ones that have freshly been retrieved from the server today, the loader keeps spinning and "Loading..." appears endlessly.
Shouldn't these messages still all be on my local computer? No matter if there is something on the server or not?
I have made no changes to the account settings in mail.
I have set up one of the accounts as a new (duplicate) to see what happens. It downloaded those messages, that were less old than a month and therefore still on the server. I can view them.
In the corresponding old account, i can't even view a message from yesterday.
I am at wits end and loosing all my "old" correspondation would be an absolute disaster.
cheers upfront for any hints!
flo

ps:
dug deeper and have had a look in the /users/.../Library/Mail/V2 Folder (thanks osx for hiding "Library" again ) and found the two Folders of these two accounts in Question.
It seems true - all Messages have been wiped of my drive. The only messages in there are the ones, retrieved this morning.
There is no apparent reason to me, why a System update would want to touch downloaded messages at all. I consider this quite a bug.

Outline and Styles option grayed out when composing message in mail

When composing an email message using mail 6.2,I'm unable to view any styles options under the Format option in the toolbar as it's grayed out along with the Outline option. I do have the rich text button selected in my "New Message" toolbar in Mail and the text I want to apply the style changes to are selected.
I need to be able to use options like outline,superscript,subscript,etc. that are available in other email programs like Thunderbird without having to compose my email in TextEdit first,then copying and pasting it into Mail.Permissions have been repaired,and I have all of the latest Apple updates installed. Attached is a screenshot showing the grayed out areas in Mail.

Inspired Life,
In the five weeks since I posted the question,yours is the first comment(no comment from Apple).
I was able to find a work around for this issue by scouring the web for ideas,so this wasn't my solution.
Go to: http://presscheck.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/how-to-highlight-text-in-yellow-using -apple-mail/
While the example they make is for highlighted text,follow the guidelines to create other text styles as well.Once you've done that,they're available in Apple Mail.Just be sure to create a name for the each new style.
-KevinR

How do it get my app to show up with message and mail when the user press "share contact" on the iPhone

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Would like to check if it is possible to let my app show up togather with message and mail app when the user clicks on "share contact" from their contact edit.
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Check that you still have the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" placed on the Bookmarks Toolbar
* Make sure that you have the "Bookmarks Toolbar" visible: "View > Toolbars"
* Check in "View > Toolbars > Customize" that the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is on the Bookmarks Toolbar
* If the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is not on the Bookmarks Toolbar then drag it back from the Customize window onto the Bookmarks Toolbar
* If you do not see the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" then click the "Restore Default Set" button
See also:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization

Cannot view images in Mail

Hi All
Strange one, but ever since moving to Snow Leopard on the MacBook Pro, images will not load in the viewing screen of Mail. I have fiddled with the 'Display Remote Messages in HTML' preference, and for a second when I tick/un-tick that box I can see the image in Mail, before it disappears again.
I have never had this issue before...and the only new thing is moving to the MacBook Pro (via Time Machine) with Snow Leopard.
Any help on this would be great, as with my business I am unable to view stats in vital emails.
Tar

I've been having this issue since Tiger and cannot fix it (unless I reformat my mac and start from scratch). There has to be a corrupt preference file somewhere. Basically, no matter what option I choose in mail (either display remote images or no), the images NEVER display. It's something within my mail files as when I installed 10.6, I went with a fresh install, but manually copied over my mail and prefs.
It's been an issue for 2+ years. I have an old thread on these boards that never got to the bottom of it then, either. Argh.
Rob

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Images in received emails are only visible if included in an HTML message.
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