Letterbox 0.16: Installer, visual enhancements
The developer of the widescreen, 3-pane plugin for Mail.app, Letterbox, has been busy.
He has just released version 0.16, which offers an installer, a new icon, some visual enhancements and some minor bugfixes.
Running the installer a second time offers an “uninstall” option, which is handy for people who don’t like digging around in their Mail folder.
He has also written 
a FAQ, a future features list and a list of known bugs.
You can get the updated plugin from the developer’s web site .
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June 9th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Tim,
This plugin is a great idea and very much appreciated for widescreen Macs like my brand-spanking-new MacBook.
After using it for a few days, however, I think I’m going back to Mail.app’s default 3-pane view. Maybe it’s just me, but after awhile I’m getting uncomfortable reading emails on the RIGHT side of the screen.
For those of us whose languages are read left-to-right, this seems to make sense. (That’s why left-side site menus seem more natural.)
But still, this has gotten me incredibly curious. Is anyone else experiencing this, or am I just way too used to the default setup??
a d a m
PS- I did send the developer a feature request for an option to switch the positions of the header and content panes. But I have no idea how challenging this would be.
June 10th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Hi there,
This worked for me. I tried the earlier download and for some reason it would not work at all for me. But this download did the trick.
I really am enjoying this 3 panel version of Mail. I prefer the layout. I like the way that my email looks like a “sheet” of paper, not a window full of text. Is see many comments about being better for larger screen sizes, which deterred me form trying this at first, as I use a 12 inch PowerBook, but I really like this plug in. It makes “text emails nicer to read, at least for me.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:14 am
Bummer, the site seems to have gone down.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:37 am
Yep, it’s down. I think the domain name has expired.
It’ll be up again soon, no doubt.
August 18th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
And it is