Freron MailMate

Forgetful columns

I have just signed on as “watching” 24 different tickets, which can all be summed up as “my column and/or thread settings are being ignored.” I thought it might be helpful to create a single list of them. It’s possible, of course, that not all of these are exactly the same problem under the hood — but the effect on the end user is the same: reasoned, considered settings are forgotten and need to be recreated periodically. In my case, it comes up every six weeks or so, and has done so for nearly a decade.

Many of these tickets mention the work-around, but I’ll put it here for completeness:

1. Enter defaults delete com.freron.MailMate MmMailboxRelatedStates in Terminal.
   
2. Restart MailMate.
   
3. Re-create your ideal column settings.
   
4. Choose View > Columns > Use as Default Columns.
   
5. Remember that some specialized mailbox types (e.g., “Sent Messages”) don’t (and shouldn’t) use the Default Columns default.

[*Quite a few of the tickets are marked as “spam.” Though clicking on the “This has been marked as spam” notation in Lighthouse makes the notation go away, it doesn’t “stick” for me when re-loading the page. I assume only those with greater priviledges than I can effect such change.*]

@Benny, please do let us know if there’s anything we can do to help you get this fixed. There’s so much to love about MailMate, but this is becoming quite frustrating. Thanks!

• № 586 ( new). 2014-01-15. Adrian Bettridge-Wiese. Messages not threading in smart mailbox
• № 682 ( new): 2014-03-23. Scott A. McIntyre. Displayed columns not being remembered.
• № 869 ( cantreproduce, spam). 2014-08-12. Justin. Sort keeps resetting to "Source Mailbox"
• № 1064 ( new). 2015-03-02. Peter Mienes. Colums view lost
• № 1132 ( new). 2015-05-01. Andreas Jung. "Revert do default columns" not persistent
• № 1209 ( new): 2015-07-21. Florian Schulze. Inbox always resets to "Organize by Thread"
• № 1334 ( accepted, spam). 2015-12-04. Dave Eckhardt . "Organize by Thread" turns itself on
• № 1369 ( accepted, spam). 2016-01-04. Andreas Jung. "Revert to default column" is not working at all
• № 1499 ( new). 2016-07-19. Andreas Jung. Random behavior of customized column settings
• № 1545 ( new). 2016-10-04. Gilbert Osmond. Mail Folder View Settings: Global default?
• № 1592 ( new, spam). 2016-11-30. Ben Wong. Mail List Window Keeps Switching Back to the "To" Column
• № 1647 ( reproduced, spam). 2017-01-17. Robert Brenstein. default columns for junk and sent mailboxes do not stick - a bug or a feature?
• № 1683 ( new). 2017-02-08. Robert Brenstein. Version 1.9.6 (5344) changes default column widths upon upgrade
• № 1825 ( accepted, spam). 2017-09-08. Bram Abramson. Column view doesn't stick on View -> Columns -> Use as Default Columns
• № 1985 ( new, spam). 2018-04-09. Peter Borsella. "Organize by thread" working inconsistently
• № 2045. ( new). 2018-07-05. Eelco Chaudron. Sources account INBOX does not save column layout
• № 2155 ( new, spam): 2018-11-01. Mike Conley. Message sort order is not remembered across app instances
• № 2201 ( reproduced, spam). 2018-12-11. Gabriel Bordeaux. Default columns issue
• № 2273 ( new). 2019-03-05. Scott Paterson. Keeps Reverting To Organize By Thread
• № 2291 ( new). 2019-03-22. Marek Kowalczyk. In some mailboxes Columns revert to an unwanted view
• № 2555 ( new). 2020-05-13. Pierre Igot. Message list doesn't remember column widths after relaunch
• № 2596 ( new, spam). 2020-06-17. Charlie Clark. Setting default columns is not working properly
• № 2890 ( accepted). 2021-09-01. Christian Bailey. Column settings are sometimes not preserved, even after selecting “Use as Default Columns”
• № 3026 ( accepted): 2022-03-11. Default columns forgotten