[MlMt] Message preview won't stay turned off

[Eric Sharakan]

On 10 Jan 2026, at 12:48, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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.

Bill's screenshot shows what I described in my reply below.

-Eric

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>> 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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