[Evolution-users] Disable first line preview in email list wide view?

[Brad Thornborrow]

As always, Apple has its own take on how it should look, although I think an option for two lines without the additional preview text would still be the simplest solution, since the preview pane option is available for those that want it. Here is a screenshot of your message in Apple Mail for example…



-- 
Brad

> On Jul 7, 2025, at 10:05 AM, Milan Crha via evolution-users <evolution-users at lists.osuosl.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2025-07-07 at 15:07 +0200, Brad Thornborrow wrote:
>> Considering I live out of email for my work, it’s just another one of
>> those little annoyances in the day.
> 
> 	Hi,
> that's pity. I did not want to add the third line for that text, thus
> it's beside the Subject, slightly smaller. You can change the view, for
> example to View->Current View->Messages, but it also turns the view
> into table-like, not what the Wide View does. You have more control
> what to see when there are only columns.
> 
>> For example, looking at Apple Mail, which does something similar, the
>> preview text is on a newline and includes the first two lines of text
>> rather than a short snippet which may add no value.
> 
> Do they also strip the "Hello" lines and/or quotations? What the
> Evolution's IMAP does is that it takes around the first 255 non-
> whitespace characters from the message body, removes the new lines and
> so on, and uses it. In your reply it means the actual text, because you
> top-posted. In this mail it means the credits line and few quoted
> letters, which I agree is not that useful as it could be. Other servers
> can provide the body preview on their own, like the Microsoft Exchange
> does.
> 
> 	Bye,
> 	Milan
> 
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