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new mail window too wide

Odd thing today. In Mail, if I click on the icon for a new mail window to come up (or use command-N) the window that opens is too wide, twice what it used to be. I cannot make it less wide though if I go to the right border, the cursor changes to an arrow pointing right and I can drag the window even more wide.

If, in the In Box, if I open a message by double-clicking it, it retains the former width, that is not this wide.

I have no idea why this has happened. I have not changed any Mail settings or added accounts or anything like that.

Ideas?

Restart your Mac and see if that makes a difference.

Does hitting the green button once or twice or 3 times have any effect?

It is the same after restart.

Hitting the green button makes the new message window full screen. Hitting it a second time, it comes back to the same too wide condition.

Do you have any signatures?

i can't resize the new message window in mac mail.

Or maybe with the New Reply Window foremost, run this in Script Editor...

This Apple script will resize Mail window to an exact size and the window is then moved to the center of your screen.

Specify the program name, height and width below and run the script.

set theApp to "Mail"

set appHeight to 400

set appWidth to 600

tell application "Finder"

    set screenResolution to bounds of window of desktop

end tell

set screenWidth to item 3 of screenResolution

set screenHeight to item 4 of screenResolution

tell application theApp

    activate

    reopen

    set yAxis to (screenHeight - appHeight) / 2 as integer

    set xAxis to (screenWidth - appWidth) / 2 as integer

    set the bounds of the first window to {xAxis, yAxis, appWidth + xAxis, appHeight + yAxis}

end tell

I have tried with different signatures or none, no difference.

Tried putting  your suggested script into effect and what it does is change the Message Viewer window, not the open New Message window.

Thanks for trying.

— Richard

Hmmm, & the new Message window was open & foremost?

I ran it in 10.10.5 & it worked perfectly?

Maybe I did not do it right. I left the words as you had them. Put the script into Script Editor, then with the New Message window open I ran the script from the Editor. Is that right?

That's what I did that worked, but if it resized another Mail Window, then the problem might be Finder has lost track of certain windows, for kicks you might set it all up again & Force Quit Finder, when Finder reappears try running the Script again.

Tried that. Made no difference.

Quit mail, use TextWrangler to open...

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences/c om.apple.mail.plist

Search for...

<key>NSWindow Frame Compose Window</key>

Below that should be the the size of the Compose window, here I set it to this to find it in the first place...

<string>-30 805 1950 372 0 0 1920 1177 </string>

(Last 4 numbers are default fillable screen size)

Or if you have a Time Machine backup, restore that file from a good time.

I tried all of these options.

1) replaced the file from a boot backup of a week ago.

2) replaced file from Time Machine backup of March 2.

3) Used TextWrangler — used the open file option and get MacOS Error code -43.

So problem persists. Stubborn one.

Used TextWrangler — used the open file option and get MacOS Error code -43.

And Mail wasn't running???

If it wasn't do a Get Info on that file & see if you have or can add R/W rights.

Mail was not running. Just tried it again.

Then went to the file, did Get Info and found that I have R/W rights already.

最后更新：2017-10-06 18:15:23

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