163749 - Preview Pane contains trash if no thread was selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194638

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Peter Möller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820

if You change from one account to the next, then there is not yet a selection of
a thread done. In many cases I don't get the blank preview pane, but trash like:

"out by trying the software and reporting problems to  Bugzilla. Read our
Getting Started document for more information on testing Mozilla Mail & News.


multiple identities.

Unlike prior versions of Netscape, Mozilla supports multiple POP accounts. "

There was also a lot of binary code that couldn't be copied ;-)

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mail
2. Often You see the trash-text in preview-pane now already, since no thread was
selected then
3. Otherwise select inbox of a different account
3. Most You will see it at least now

Actual Results:  
You will see trashtext as described above

Expected Results:  
a blank preview-pane

Comment 1

[u63580]

Seeing something similar in 1.4.  The preview panel is not updating properly, so
I get the remains of what was there before.  It only happens when I don't have a
message selected.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a; MultiZilla v1.4.0.2)
Gecko/20030324

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I also see something similar in
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

The process is: Select an account; instead of thread & preview panes, there
is the account menu page.  Select a folder or newsgroup: the thread pane is
drawn properly, whether empty or containing new messages; but the preview pane,
which should be blank (and grey, on my system), still shows the remainder of
the server menu page (which has a white background).

However, if a message was previously in the pane and I select a folder, the
pane is completely erased, as expected.

I have seen a small grey rectangle of erasure in the lower-right of this pane;
when this was happening, it happened consistently, but currently it is not.

Joseph Wright, does that jibe with your observations?

This is such an obvious symptom that I expected to see a lot of reports, but
I couldn't find any dupes.

Comment 3

[u63580]

Yup, sounds about the same.  I couldn't find anything else as well - very odd.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

OK; confirming.  Even tho the original (Moz1.1) symptom doesn't seem to exist
any more, the title of this bug matches the current symptom.

Comment 5

[Michael Schleiermacher]

Look Screenshots in this maybe duplicate bug.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201799

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 201799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duping this to a later one that has actually gotten the attention of Mr Spitzer.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194638 ***