126001 - Following "Read Messages" link causes mail to be checked

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 115173

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Nick Johnston]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

When I click on an account name in the left-hand pane of the mail and news
window, an Outlook-esque page is displayed in right-hand pane providing options like

- Read Messages
- Compose Message
- Search Messages

and so on. 

Clicking on "Read Messages" displays the messages in the INBOX for that account
(as you would expect), but also *checks the server for mail*. This is irritating
since:
- if you are not connected to the Internet the usual "host not found" message
will be displayed unless you cancel quickly
- I might not want to check my e-mail at that time

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla, open Mail and News component. 
2. Click on account name in left-hand pane e.g. "foo at netscape.com". 
3. Click on "Read Messages" link in right-hand pane. 

Actual Results:  Messages displayed as expected but Mozilla attempts to contact
the mail server to check and download mail. 

Expected Results:  Should just have displayed the messages.

Well, you could just add another option to the page shown in right-hand pane
"Get Messages" and make "Read" do just what it implies.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115173 ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate