Disabling Swipe left/right on messages in Apple Mail using Magic Mouse

[drewsaur]

Greetings, friends.

For the life of me, I haven’t been able to find a way to disable the message swipe left/right functions in Apple Mail when using a Magic Mouse. This will make the entire purchase of BetterTouchTool worthwhile. This doesn’t leave me feeling like there is a lot of hope:

Turn Off Horizontal Scrolling in Mail when using Magic Mouse

I bought BTT for one thing: To turn off horizontal gesture screwiness in Mail. In the Mail Messages List, if I move my finger the tiniest bit left or right on the Magic Mouse, the message I'm over slides to reveal Delete or Mark Read or some other thing I never want. I've tried to turn this off with Terminal, but no worky. I can't figure out how to get BTT to do this, either. Does anyone know how to do this? If it's not possible, I'm going to throw the mouse in the trash. (It's not really me…

Disabling “1 finger swipe left” or “1 finger swipe right” has no effect on the message list.

[pixeljammer]

I just had a conversation about this the other day. He’s working on it.

[drewsaur]

That’s awesome to hear. Any notion if @Andreas_Hegenberg is planning on releasing before the rest of my 43 day trial ends ?

[pixeljammer]

Unfortunately, I am notion-free.

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

Does this work for you?

block_mail_magic_mouse.bttpreset (6.2 KB)

It contains a scroll modifier to block horizontal scrolling, set specifically for Mail and an advanced trigger condition that only enables the scroll modifier while hovering the message list:

[drewsaur]

I’ve been away from my home computer all day, and will get back to you as soon as I can with this.

[drewsaur]

Thanks, @Andreas_Hegenberg, but this does not work.

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

it seems to work fine here, which macOS version are you on? You might need to adapt the condition (or remove it ) on < macOS 26

[drewsaur]

I am on 26.4 on that machine.

[drewsaur]

Is there any way I can continue to engage with you @Andreas_Hegenberg so that we can get this to work?

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

Have you tried without the condition already? Maybe post some screenshots of your setup.

[drewsaur]

@Andreas_Hegenberg ,

With this enabled…

…this still happens.

[drewsaur]

@Andreas_Hegenberg any ideas or update?

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

no, unfortunately not. It is working fine here. Have you tried to remove the advanced trigger condition to see whether it works without that.

[drewsaur]

I have; that's actually what I originally tried on my own. It still allows the swipe. Is it possible I am missing something? I am a technically experienced user, but not of this software, and it seems that I could be missing something obvious. This is what my running configuration looks like when using the preset you designed for me:

[drewsaur]

Oh my gosh. I hope you will laugh with me and not at me. I am big on acting on windows in the background without bringing them into focus. I had BTT in the foreground when I was testing. When I realized that, and brought Mail into the foreground, the preset worked. Of course. I am sorry. Registration coming next!

[drewsaur]

I spoke too soon. When I shut down BTT and relaunch it, the preset no longer works....even with Mail in the foreground...