145717 - Inbox pane flashes while trying to resize it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188138

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Alex Stade]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020515
BuildID:    0000000000

When mail comes in with large headers, such as messages from mailing lists, the
message pane starts resizing itself to compensate for the header view. This
causes the mailer to become somewhat unusable. The resizing manifests itself as
a series of flashing (see bug 141966). Restarting the mailer doesn't help. The
only fix is to delete the message. To do this, one has to select a message with
`normal' header to gain access to the message list pane. One can now delete the
culprit message by right clicking on it and selecting delete message.

While we're using Mozilla on SPARC and Intel Solaris, it appears that  Linux
versions also have trouble with this. We are using IMAP, however POP produces
the same result.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a message with large headers
2. Mailer tries to resize panes to compensate for the headers
3. Frenzy of flashing is result

Actual Results:  The mailer started the resize frenzy.

Expected Results:  The mailer shouldn't try to resize the panes when the headers
are larger. The old Netscape mailer doesn't do this, neither does any other
mailer I've used (balsa, dtmail, evolution etc).

Please see bug 141966 for similar information.

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

does this still happen with 1.1beta?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Alex Stade: it appears that Bug 188138 and Bug 190820 duplicate your report.  If 
you agree, as soon as somebody decides which of those two takes priority (both 
have been confirmed), I'll mark this as a duplicate.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188138 ***