For those of you who are familiar with mac, I am using the new mail 5 on lion. I like it, but I cannot figure out how to have the "to" field show up instead of the "from" field in the new iPad-like view. It's really annoying because I obviously know that I sent the mail and I would like to know and see who I sent it to. Is there a way to do this without reverting back to the classic view? Thanks.

Mine isn't doing that at all. My Sent mailbox only shows WHO it was sent to.

Are you using the new view that is similar to the iPad mail? If so, are you using imap and gmail? I wonder why mine is doing that. Is there a way to change it so that it shows the " to" field?

Do this... delete your gmail account from Mail.
Open Safari.
Log into your gmail account.
Safari will offer to set up Mail and iCal for you with your Google accounts.

Pretty slick, and mine works fine.

Yeah I guess I'm using the "ipad" view, I didn't change anything from the defaults.

I tried it.. no dice. I have gone through all the settings and don't see anything that remotely looks like it might change it. It is so frustrating. Do you think something is wrong with my program? It's probably a setting that so simple but I just don't see it.

Also, have any of you figured out how to unsubscribe to certain folders? I don't want all the gmail folders and I used to be able to filter which ones I did not want on outlook but that is another thing I cannot figure out on mail 5.

i think you are looking at the wrong Sent Folder.
sounds like you are looking at the Gmail Folders, Sent Mail (the one in the IMAP folders down below)

instead you should be looking at the sent folder that has a little paper airplane as the icon.

does that make sense?

Mo if you are talking about the sent folder near the general inbox at the top for all mail accounts that is always empty. They only sent folders that contain anything are the ones that are under the accounts. The one you are talking about is empty. I'm on a pc now so I can't check, but I know on the iPad the sent folder has an airplane, but I can't remember if the mac does. If it does, and it's near the top, it is empty. I still want to be able to sort the sent folders under each email account by recipient, otherwise what good is it? I am the one who always sends all mail so I will always see myself and no the person I am sending it to. There has to be a way to fix it. If not, I'll have to switch back to outlook where I know I can do it.

you are right.
seems to be a bug with lion and gmail.
the current work around is to go to mail > preference > Viewing
and check off "Use Classic Layout"
you can then close the prefs,
and in mail goto the top menu bar and View - Message attributes and choose what columns to see.

the downside is that you no longer get the iPad style layout..

i lied.
here is the solution to your problem . .

you're welcome!

[Link: hints.macworld.com]

"The fix for this is simple, and may have only been unknown to me: Click on a folder in the Gmail folder in Mail's side bar. Click on the Mailbox menu in Mail. Click on the Use This Mailbox For menu item and click on the Mail folder that corresponds to the Gmail folder you've selected. That's it. Your Mail folders and Gmail folders should stay in sync. Note that you'll still have folders that don't map to Mail defaults such as, Starred and All Mail. Not to mention, all Gmail labels are converted to folders and Mail.app, which could create quite a mess if you're like me and have a lot of labels. It's a small price to pay, however, for IMAP access to Gmail."

Mo,

You're crazy! That worked. Thank you.

Now I thought that apple was supposed to be intuitive, easy, user friendly... it took me hours of research to no avail until you sent me those instructions. Well, it's set up, and I like it a lot. I don't see myself going back to outlook.

Don't blame Apple, call Google on that one.

very happy i could help. i get kicks out of small things like that.


outlook sucks on mac . . its bloated and slow, just like the entire office suite on mac.

i like mac mail and iWork...

Have you tried Thunderbird or Sparrow? Sparrow is a little too "social networking" for me, but I like Thunderbird.

on mac i used postbox which is a variation of thunderbird that basically makes it more mac like. it was great and i used it until Lion. at that point Lion's mail blew postbox away.

also postbox / thunderbird does not support exchange accounts (i have 3 different exchange accounts and a few imap).

sparrow is cute but its not better then lions mail. again no exchange support, and not as powerful as mail.app … sparrow seams great if you only use gmail..

i have 7 email accounts. i love lion mails smart folders, shortcut bar on top, 5 colored nameable flags, ipad layout, exchange support, and more.