[MlMt] Message preview won't stay turned off

Raza Rizvi raz at raz.org
Sat Jan 10 12:03:06 EST 2026


Reviving an old thread… I also have this issue on one recent machine I 
use which is running r6290.

Basically every time I reply to a message (though oddly not this reply) 
it opens a message preview window to the right of the message window. I 
can turn this off using the toolbar button at the top right of the 
screen or using the View/Layout/Toggle Preview option.

So it happens for replies to messages that are HTMLised, but I would 
rather NOT see a preview as it takes up screen estate that is not 
necessary. Is there an undocumented hidden default preference to 
preserve that setting regardless of whether the message being replied to 
was originally text or HTML.

Raza

On 31 May 2021, at 18:19, Eric Sharakan wrote:

> On 31 May 2021, at 12:13, Rob McBroom wrote:
>
>> On 29 May 2021, at 2:37, Dave Carpenter wrote:
>>
>>> Guys n’ gals,
>>> I don’t want preview. It stays disabled for awhile, then it’s 
>>> there to the right of the new email I’m creating. I go to 
>>> View>Layout and this is what I see. The “Preview” item is never 
>>> checkmarked, only the “Preview at right”, which won’t 
>>> un-check. Only the “Preview” item (which is never checked) 
>>> responds: when I click on it, the preview goes away.
>>>
>>> Am I the only one experiencing this?
>>
>> From the main MailMate window try choosing View → Layout → Two 
>> Panes.
>>
>> As for making that setting stick, I don’t think it will. If I quit 
>> MailMate and relaunch it, everything is back how I left it, but if it 
>> gets restarted as part of a system restart (which is far more 
>> common), it forgets my layout and which folders I had expanded.
>>
>> -- 
>> Rob McBroom
>
> I think Dave is asking about the preview in the Composer window.  When 
> that preview gets displayed is controlled in the Composer tab of MM's 
> preferences, where you can specify "always", "when generating HTML" or 
> "never".
>
> -Eric
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