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hcaroselli

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Dec 1, 2008
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Yesterday I upgraded to Catalina and so far things seem to be working fine. However the view I see in the Mail app seems odd. I am using the Column Layout but there are no column headings as in the past. How do I get the column headings back and how can I adjust the width of the columns? I have looked at the drop down menus buy haven't found anything. Is there any good documentation for the Mail app?

BTW I also have not seen any mention of the new mail features mentioned in the promotional stuff; like blocking senders etc. ???

Thanks.
 
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jpn

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hi
glad to hear that Catalina Mail is not causing you any problem.
i also use the column layout (as i used before, in Mojave and before)
but in Catalina Mail, there is no current way to adjust the column headers. (i know, its hard to believe it but its true). i am quite sure an upcoming version will fill in Mail's rough edges....
also, regarding blocking, i have identified one address to be blocked. when an email comes in from that address it does come in, but gets marked as blocked. it does nothing else to it except mark it as blocked (with a red hand icon). i thought a blocked mail address would not be downloaded, or, downloaded but deleted, or downloaded and put into junk(?) or something, but i cant figure out how to do that...)
 
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faraway52

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Mar 3, 2019
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I have Catalina in a parallel installation and it runs fine for me.
But there is the nasty Mail bug that emails move between folders might under certain circumstances loose their content. You may end up with email headers only. You may need a long time to find out what happend because the listed headers look fine but the eamail content is lost. IMAP makes it worse because it will replicate the but to all devices.

Any new status on this show stopper?
 

hcaroselli

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 1, 2008
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Thanks folks. I hope they fix the Mail app soon. I miss having the column headings and being able to adjust column width.

Thanks again.
 
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