145643 - Mail folders should remember last read message location

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 10872

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Mark Rawling]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
BuildID:    2002051006

Communicator mail used to remember the location of the last read message in each 
mail folder. This is indespensible when you move between large folders. 
Currently Mozilla takes you to the top of the message list each time you return 
to a folder. Depending on how you sort mail this typically means that you have 
to scroll to the bottom of a large list. It is tempting to hit the 'end' key, 
but that's a big problem because it marks that last message as read, whether 
you've read it or not (if the message pain is open that is).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read a message, note location in mesage list
2. Move to another folder
3. Return to original folder - previous location is lost
4. Hit 'end' key to go to bottom of list
5. Note that the last message is marked as read if the mail pane is open, but 
you have no way of knowing if you've really read it before or not - short of 
trying to remember, which is unreliable and annoying.

Actual Results:  As described

Expected Results:
1. Return to previous location in folder's message list
2. Moving to 'end' of folder marking the message as read is a tricky one. I'm 
not sure what the best options are for that. Personally I don't really care, 
because what I really want is to display all of my messages in a reused second 
window. I think that double clicking a message should display it in a second 
window and that window should be shared/reused by all mail messages. This is 
easy to achieve by always launching messages into a window named target=_message 
or somesuch. This technique can be used to handle other cases where launching a 
separate window is desired but not every time, eg, from external applications.

This bug wouldn't be so bad if it was possible to display messages in a second 
window (again, like Communicator used to do) but Mozilla makes it virtually 
impossible to do that.

Comment 1

[Greg Onufer]

This is generic (Platform all).

Comment 2

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10872 ***

Comment 3

[laurel]

veriified as a duplicate