Smaller Preview Pane / Storage Folders

The header part (blue part) of Preview Pane in WLM is taking up too much
valuable screen space. I am referring to the part showing the sender,
receipients, date, time, attachements etc.

Is there a way to "thin" it down?


Secondly, what is the difference between "Storage Folders" and the folders
under an account?

Not at this time.

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...winston
ms-mvp windows live mail


"Hitesh" <Hitesh@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:303C9A67-1314-42BF-A244-F470D925A613@xxxxxx
The header part (blue part) of Preview Pane in WLM is taking up too much
valuable screen space. I am referring to the part showing the sender,
receipients, date, time, attachements etc.

Is there a way to "thin" it down?

You can turn it off. From the menu:

View / Layout / Message Header (Mail)
Uncheck "Show message header in the reading pane"

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Doit2it


"Hitesh" <Hitesh@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:303C9A67-1314-42BF-A244-F470D925A613@xxxxxx

Thanks, but I realise that with that solution, I can't easily open
attachements !

I have to go thru indirect route of opening up the entire mail, then opening
the attachement.

Somehow it really feels that with WLM, MS has given 2 new features and then
took away 3 old features....


"Doit2it" wrote:

Hitesh,
The size and use of screen space in that area has been an issue for quite some time.
Others have expressed similar concern.
It doesn't hurt to send feedback(WLM\Help\Send Feedback (web)

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...winston
ms-mvp windows live mail


"Hitesh" <Hitesh@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:2CC68C60-1684-459C-8D8D-70496E9E27EC@xxxxxx
Thanks, but I realise that with that solution, I can't easily open
attachements !

I have to go thru indirect route of opening up the entire mail, then opening
the attachement.

Somehow it really feels that with WLM, MS has given 2 new features and then
took away 3 old features....

"Hitesh" <Hitesh@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:303C9A67-1314-42BF-A244-F470D925A613@xxxxxx
Depends on the type of account. If it's POP3, then not much.

Storage folders have, as far as I can see, four functions.
(i) Sent, Draft and Deleted folders for newsgroup posts; newsgroup accounts
don't have their own.
(ii) Folders to accommodate migrated messages (eg. ones that the installer
finds in Outlook Express or Windows Mail during the installation process) or
imported messages
(iii) Temporary accommodation for "lost" messages - eg. ones that have been
received but not indexed and recorded in the database file because of some
glitch. These "recovered" items will usually find their way into the correct
folder, leaving an empty "Recovered items" folder behind under Storage
folders. At the moment, these empty folders should not be deleted because of
the problems this causes with Quick views.
(iv) As local storage for messages received and sent on HTTP or IMAP
accounts. These accounts synchronize, ie. what's on the server mirrors
what's in your local account folders. If you want to delete a message from
the server but keep a copy within WLMail locally, you can only achieve this
by moving the message to a folder under Storage folders.
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Noel