123244 - Anti-bug 79053: Compose windows opened from navigator should use default account

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 99363

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Jonas Jørgensen]

When I'm in mailnews, and have selected an account other than my default one, it
makes sense to use that account when I press Ctrl+M. But when I have a mailnews
window open in the background but is currently working in a navigator window,
I'd like Ctrl+M (or clicking a mailto: link) to use the default account rather
than the one selected in the mailnews window.

Comment 1

[Sheela Ravindran]

reporter, 
which build are you using?  Did you have a news account or newsgroup seleted in
the mail application when you did ctrl+M from the browser?  Because we have a
known bug on this issue. 

Comment 2

[Jonas Jørgensen]

I can reproduce this on the latest build. It doesn't matter if it's a news
account or another mail account.

Comment 3

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Oh, and I'm on Win2k.

Comment 4

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Bug 103869 seems to be the opposite of this one.

Comment 5

[Jonas Jørgensen]

It turns out that the current behavior is intended (see bug 79053).

Comment 6

[Jonas Jørgensen]

(Accidentally changed the severity to normal, sorry. Setting back to enhancement.)

Comment 7

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

-->varada

Comment 8

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Setting severity to normal again. I have given this some more thought, and I now
view it as a bug, not an RFE. Mailnews and Navigator are two completely separate
applications which happen to share the same process. The state of my mail window
should not have any effect on how my browser behaves when I click a link.

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

dup of bug 99363?

Comment 10

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Yup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99363 ***

Comment 11

[Jonas Jørgensen]

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