115970 - A way is desired to delete a message without exhibiting it

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 30560

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Paulo Castro]

As far as I'm concerned, it's currently not possible to locally delete (ie, 
move to the trash folder) a particular message that has been already 
downloaded from a POP3 server without causing it to be exhibited. For 
instance, suppose that a user has downloaded some messages to the inbox 
folder. Then, just by looking at 'subject' field of one of the messages, 
she/he was able to identify the message and decided that it should be deleted 
even without having its contents (body) rendered/displayed. Unfortunately, 
when right-clicking the message's row in the list of messages in order to show 
the popup menu that allows the message to be deleted, the message is also 
displayed. Perhaps the solution would be to modify the right-clicking behavior 
so that it selects the row and shows the popup menu, but do not cause the 
message body to be displayed. This behavior should also allow a range of 
messages to be selected without causing any of them to be displayed. 
(Currently, when selecting a range of messages, the first message selected is 
always exhibited.)

The motivation for requesting this enhancement are situations when the user 
realizes he/she has just got in his/her inbox a message that is known to 
contain a virus or that is known to break the html rendering mechanism if 
exhibited.

The new right-clicking behavior proposed above could led to states when a 
message is selected while the contents of another message is being displayed. 
As this might be confusing to some users, the panel that displays the 
message's body could be cleared always that a message other than the currently 
displayed one is right-clicked (and therefore, selected).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "right-clicking a mail message/folder should not display it"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30560 ***

Comment 2

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

verified dup.