[MlMt] Message preview won't stay turned off

[Bill Cole]

On 2026-01-10 at 12:03:06 UTC-0500 (Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:03:06 +0000)
Raza Rizvi <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> 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.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Look at this one.




> 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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