128257 - Command line parameter --Mail should open existing Mail-Windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176411

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Herbert Schmid]

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

The command line parameter --Mail should set the focus to an existing
Mail-Window (if there's allready one) instead of opening a new one. 

With this, it would be easy to integrate an "Mail-Icon" into any Window-Manager
in just putting a call to "mozilla --Mail" to it.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start "mozilla --Mail" from the command line
2.call "mozilla --Mail" again
3.(you get a new mail widow for every "mozilla --Mail")

Actual Results:  2 Mail Windows open after step 2

Expected Results:  1 Mail Window open, but with focus taken from other applications

maybe there should be an extra parameter to set this behavior

Comment 1

[Dimitrios]

There's already a bug about not allowing more than one 3-pane Mail window to be
opened but I wasn't able to find it.

Comment 2

[Olga]

So, we have different expectation when retrieve Mail from command line vs
getting another instance of Mail by double clicking on Inbox? 

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176411 ***