User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FDM; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) Build Identifier: version 3 alpha 1 (20070225) The three-column view has the drawback that not enough of the message pane is too narrow. If that is dragged to be wider, either the message list or folder list becomes to narrow to be useful. I propose a layout where folders go at the top, the message list go below it and the vertical message pane remains. My ASCII art masterpiece below demonstrates: Note that all three panes are perfect as they are - it is just their placement that hassles. --------- | | | |--| | | | | --------- Reproducible: Always

See also bug 215661.