and note the description says "message width" not "list width" Maybe someone else can test it and see what happens

thw width changes accordingly, when i use the list on the left, but not, when i double click on a mail and the window pops up.

Message Width List On Left

this is the width of the list. i can change that also with the mouse. this is not the problem.

Try this: open up your preferences editor, navigate to mail and find "Message Width List On Left" Change that value to something like 200 or more, whatever you like, and save

exactly.
but that doesnt sound too good then, damn..

right click on whatever mail tab you have open, select restore, you will get a little minimized page in the upper left. Go ahead and resize it and drag it wherever you want. Opera will pretty closely remember where you had it when you close and reopen.

never thought of that, great idea. at least now better than before.
thanks!

another thing, where to change the width of the actual mail size?
when i open a mail, a tab opens, but the mail is show in the middle.
if i have pictures attached, i want to see them the whole tab width.

Try this: open up your preferences editor, navigate to mail and find "Message Width List On Left" Change that value to something like 200 or more, whatever you like

If a message is HTML, then it'll appear as the sender specified. If a text message is wrapped, the size is whatever they sent it as. If a text message is "flowed" then it'll always adjust to the window. That's how mail in Opera and also Opera Mail was designed.

fit to width is only shrinking the content if its bigger than the mail borders, thus eliminating the scroll bars.
@sgunhouse: hm, didnt find a setting that suggests the body size..

Yeah, don't know what you mean by body size. A screen shot would help

@sgunhouse: hm, didnt find a setting that suggests the body size..

exactly.
but that doesnt sound too good then, damn..

right click on whatever mail tab you have open, select restore, you will get a little minimized page in the upper left. Go ahead and resize it and drag it wherever you want. Opera will pretty closely remember where you had it when you close and reopen.

never thought of that, great idea. at least now better than before.
thanks!

another thing, where to change the width of the actual mail size?
when i open a mail, a tab opens, but the mail is show in the middle.
if i have pictures attached, i want to see them the whole tab width.

I am not sure I understand your question, but you can set fit to width in the same mail layout options you pictured in your original post. If that's what you mean

I don't really know either YAML (to modify the layout of the mail window) or CSS, but at least CSS we should have lots of people around who can help. Look for mime.css, that's the file for mail messages.

but that doesnt sound too good then, damn..

right click on whatever mail tab you have open, select restore, you will get a little minimized page in the upper left. Go ahead and resize it and drag it wherever you want. Opera will pretty closely remember where you had it when you close and reopen.

never thought of that, great idea. at least now better than before.
thanks!

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another thing, where to change the width of the actual mail size?
when i open a mail, a tab opens, but the mail is show in the middle.
if i have pictures attached, i want to see them the whole tab width.

Anyway, there seems to be no way to do what you want. My work around was to right click on whatever mail tab you have open, select restore, you will get a little minimized page in the upper left. Go ahead and resize it and drag it wherever you want. Opera will pretty closely remember where you had it when you close and reopen. You can also put a zoom slider tool to enlarge the text if need be. There is also a fit to width option in the mail settings. Pretty cool