Running SeaMonkey 2.30 for Mail (can't upgrade that atm) on this OS. I would like the Preview pane to be completely gone, so I have it deselected. However, when I first start Mail, it shows up as the splitter on the bottom of the window - and I just discovered that it's actually "there" and appears to be opening emails while in that state
(I found that out when marking an email as Junk, it popped up from the bottom with an infobar saying it thinks this message is Junk.)
It appears to be completely gone if I check and then un-check the option for it in the View menu, but on looking with DOM Inspector, I'm not sure it isn't just hidden...
Short of writing an extension, is there some way to always have it completely gone? I don't want to be opening emails just by selecting them.
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How to completely remove preview pane in Mail?
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Re: How to completely remove preview pane in Mail?
I've noticed the same thing. Appears to be a bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1108389
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960713
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1108389
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960713
But then again, I may be wrong.
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Re: How to completely remove preview pane in Mail?
Thanks Andy Boze for digging those bugs up. So it looks like I will need to have some kind of extension.
(Hmm... I wonder if there would be adverse effects from using an extension to actually remove the preview pane's nodes... I'll have to try that later. And I wonder, assuming it's fine, whether that will also do anything for that training.dat problem I had posted about before... )
(Hmm... I wonder if there would be adverse effects from using an extension to actually remove the preview pane's nodes... I'll have to try that later. And I wonder, assuming it's fine, whether that will also do anything for that training.dat problem I had posted about before... )
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Re: How to completely remove preview pane in Mail?
Try (in userChrome.css under namespace) -barbaz wrote: )
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#messagepanebox { display: none !important;}
As you said, you can hit the nodes, but doing that also tends to hit the fan elsewhere, in my experience.
I've left the threadpane splitter visible here, just so you can see what's going on.
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Re: How to completely remove preview pane in Mail?
Thanks Frank, I'll add that and see how it goes.
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Yeah, let me know, as I can see what you mean and reproduced it -barbaz wrote:Thanks Frank, I'll add that and see how it goes.
Seriously, just how dumb is that guy inside SeaMonkey? I know it's junk, it was me that just marked it as junk!(I found that out when marking an email as Junk, it popped up from the bottom with an infobar saying it thinks this message is Junk.)
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Re: How to completely remove preview pane in Mail?
As I've just discovered when trying to read the email notification of your reply, that CSS needs to be wrapped in a @-moz-document. Otherwise it hides messages opened in a new window too.Frank Lion wrote:Yeah, let me know,barbaz wrote:Thanks Frank, I'll add that and see how it goes.
So now I have this -
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@-moz-document url("chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul") {
/* Frank hide preview pane ..........*/
#messagepanebox { display: none !important;}
}
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Re: How to completely remove preview pane in Mail?
Yeah, this isn't a great fix and I don't think it can be done properly with just .css.barbaz wrote:As I've just discovered when trying to read the email notification of your reply, that CSS needs to be wrapped in a @-moz-document. Otherwise it hides messages opened in a new window too.
The #messagepanebox's node is the notificationbox and there is nothing conditional that I can grab hold of there. That doesn't come until further down the stack when you get this -
notification[value="junkContent"] but I can only make use of that condition further down the stack, not higher up in it. It's just how this stuff works.
That means that .css fixes are always going to be a scattergun approach that can't be made conditional on just junk passing into the Junk folder.
It seems that even if you have the Preview Pane turned off, then any notification after that, er, turns it on and it stays on.
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