124957 - Mail & News three pane, one window setup unusable (Request for Message Center 4.x style)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62071

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[46point2]

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BuildID:    2002020405

In previous versions of Netscape (up through 4.x), one was not forced into the
horrible, horrible, horrible 3-pane single window setup for reading mail/news
messages.  The separate Message Center allowed one to use separate windows to
track folders and message listings (and messages themselves, separated from the
preview pane, if desired).

There was also a nice pull-down menu listing of all one's mail/news folders at
the top of the Messenger window (which also identified one's current folder);
this has also disappeared.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the Mail & Newsgroups pane.
2. Try to read something, and get lost in a morass of minimizing bars, ellipses
in folder/newsgroup names, abbreviated date/sender/subject information, etc.


Actual Results:  Aggravation.  The previous design was great; why get rid of it?

There also were contextual menu pieces scattered about, the result of trying to
get the message header information columns realigned after un-minimizing the
folder listing.

Expected Results:  Please bring back the Message Center or similar
functionality.  Please bring back the pull-down menu listing of folders as
described above.  Please bring back the Message Center or similar functionality.

Multiple windows are good.

Comment 1

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62071 ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

Marking verified as a duplicate