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For those of you who have updated Apple’s OSX Snowleapard to 10.6.2 you probly found that letterbox for mail no longer works. No worries! Here is the fix!
Go Download the Letterbox Beta 5 by Aaron Harnly
To install, simply do the following:
1. Quit Mail
2. Copy Letterbox.mailbundle into ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
3. Restart Mail.
That’s it! Another quick fix. Thanks Aaron!

UPDATE: Read Mail Letterbox Beta 5
It’s a manual install, but for those of you who want the widescreen or vertical view for mail in snow leopard, the wait is finally over, and this time with no hacks. Go download Letterbox beta 4 for Snow Leopard, it works in 64bit mode and functions great as far [...]

UPDATE 2: Read Mail Letterbox Beta 5
UPDATE: OSX 10.6.1 Update Kills Letterbox for Apple Mail, No Worries… Here is the Fix.
This is in reference to an earlier post that gets letterbox working for Apple Mail on Snow Leopard.
Here is how you get letterbox working in 10.6.1:

Open the file called Info.plist found here: (user)/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled) /Letterbox.mailbundle/Contents/Info.plist

Inside [...]

UPDATE: Read Mail Letterbox Beta 5
Why in the world, since all macs now are delivered with wide screens, does apple’s mail app not have some type of setting to allow you to view mail in a widescreen, vertical, landscape, letterbox layout?
Before snow leopard there were a couple of options. But because of “Snow Leopard”, these [...]

Well, the upgrade has been easy, yet the snow leopard hurricane left devastation in its path. It seems that with every OS upgrade, there is a process that all the application developers have to follow in order to be compatible with the new OS. There are always some that are just behind the 8-ball. Thus, [...]