Revert Mail to Classic Layout in OS X Lion
Jul 26, 2011 - 9 Comments
Do you miss the way Mail used to look? Mail.app received a pretty significant makeover in Mac OS X Lion, but if you’re not a fan of the revised layout, you can easily revert back to the classic Mail appearances original UI:
- Open Mail and Preferences
- Click on “Viewing” tab and choose “Use classic layout”
That’s it! You’re back to the way Mail looked in Snow Leopard, which keeps the message list on top of the mail message.
Thanks to Jim for sending this in!
Any idea if there’s a way to get ride of the new window animation? For example, when I hit send, the compose window flies vertically off the screen. Just another one of those frivolous animations that add little.
Type this into the Terminal app, then restart Mail (and any other open app):
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO
Nice. All we need now is the same checkbox in Address Book and iCal. And Finder, come to think of it, regarding their silly monochrome icons.
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Thank you! Just saved me from a big headache!
Brilliant… I much prefer the old mail interface. However, any way of activating tabs to include the search button?
Thank you!!
THANK YOU! Oh, I’ve been suffering with the new ‘improved’ interface, and it feels SO good to turn it off.
Yes I prefer classic too. But I also want the mail message to the right. Not at the bottom!