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[DeMus <Jan.Mussche@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's the same problem Thunderbird has: information is shown in the header which does not bring anything new, at least that's my opinion.
Just look at the text in the header. What does it say extra that is not already in the list of e-mails you have just above, or next to it? From - look in field from in e-mail list
To - obviously me, but could be more people, look in field To in e-mail list
Subject - see Subject in e-mail list
Date - same here.

So, why not completely forget about the header and give more space for either the e-mail list or the contents of the opened message? Especially on the new wide-screen monitors this would be very handy.
Keep the window boundary to separate mail list from preview window and that's it. Erase the big grey area.

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Title:
  Enhancment request, compact headers on evolution message preview pane

Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool:
  Confirmed
Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evolution

  Operating evolution on modern netbooks is fine, the application is
  reponsive and well suited for these netbook machines. However screen
  real estate is at a premium given that for the most part the screens
  are only 1024x600. They are vertically challenged so to speak.

  When message preview pane is enabled, the message header display takes
  up about 20% of the available screen real-estate, as it lists 5 lines
  of information.

  I would be nice to have some control over the format of this display,
  allowing the format to be reduced to 2 lines

  1) a line showing the from and to addresses.
  2) a line showing the subject and date.

  A compact header display option would be a great benefit on these
  devices which are becoming more and more popular.  If somebody wants
  to see the full header display they can open the message.

  It would also be worth examining the size of the "preferences" screens
  as they are often left with the OK/CANCEL/APPLY buttons off the bottom
  of the screen, this is particularly noticeable on the account setup
  screens, alternatively consider moving all the "action" buttons to the
  top of the panels.

  This class of device and screen size is exploding in usage, and is
  driving a large amount of the adoption of linux as manufactures
  attempt to reach the lowest price points by avoiding the use of
  licensed products that have fee based licensing terms.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
  Package: evolution 2.24.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evolution
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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