67868 - Nothing happens in Acct Central for Local Folders Read Messages

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[kmurray1115]

When Local Folders level is selected, and you display the Account Central page,
if you click on "Read Messages," nothing happens. I know that nothing should,
since there is no inbox, but what do we tell the user?

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Good point, this is something we can remove by just changing the JavaScript
calls (most likely in msgAccountCentral.js) to not include the <!ENTITY readMsgs
(we've got links and suffixes.)  Re-assigning to Bhuvan.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

both local folder and news should not have "read messages", as neither have a
well know folder (or newsgroup) to load (like Inbox).

I think we can use the canGetMessages property on the server (or protocol info)
to determine this.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Looks like we've got code already that does this:
(found in msgAccountManager.js)

// Get the account type
        msgBundle      =
srGetStrBundle("chrome://messenger/locale/messenger.properties");
        selectedServer = GetSelectedServer(); 
        var serverType = selectedServer.type; 
        if (serverType == "nntp")
            acctType = msgBundle.GetStringFromName("newsAcctType");
        else
            acctType = msgBundle.GetStringFromName("mailAcctType");

How to implement that is beyond me though ;-)

Comment 4

[James Paige]

In build 2001092403 on Windows 95 I do not see the "Read Messages" or "Compose a
New Message" links on the Account Central page for Local Folders.

So it appears this has already been fixed, eh?

Comment 5

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking Worksforme.

Comment 6

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Worksforme.