190820 - Message pane resizes inappropriately when header/attachment window combo too long for current message pane

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 188138

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ray Charbonneau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030125
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030125

When the default Mail window layout is chosen (the left of the two available
from Preferences/Mail and Newsgroups/Windows, the one which uses the whole left
side of the window to list mail folders), the message pane resizes, growing if
the combination of the header and the attachment is too long to fit within the
current message pane, or shrinking if it's shorter. The message pane resizes at
the expense of the left hand folder pane.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a list of messages in your folder, some with short recipients
([e-mail]), some with long (desktop-engineering-list - Desktop Plann
<[e-mail]>).  Some with attachments, some without.
2. Scroll through the messages in the list pane.  


Actual Results:  
The divider between the left-hand folder pane and the list and message panes
will jump back and forth, depending on the total width of the recipients name
and whether the attachment window is shown.

Expected Results:  
The divider should remain in place, leaving the sizes of the three panes alone.
 Having the panes resize is disconcerting.

Comment 1

[Ian Brandt]

I'm seeing this too.  Happens to me when there is a long "To:" list that is
separated by semicolons or commas, but no spaces (it will wrap if there are
spaces).  The panes freak out.  The columns in the header pane seemingly stretch
out to the virtual width of long header line, which for me usually only leaves
the sender and subject columns visible.  This is annoying because for me these
messages often tend to be spam that is sent to a long list of recipients, and I
can't click the junk column to mark the message as junk without having to
actually select it into the message pane.  I'm currently running build 2003020404.

Regards,

Ian

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 194713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 194445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 195195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

The older instance i find is fixed, bug 168937
This seems to be a newer regression. Resolving as new for now, based on dups.

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

Three dupes include Linux & Solaris -> all

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 168489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Eric Brundick]

*** Bug 201999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Eric Brundick]

I've marked bug 201999 as a dupe, and also of note is that I only use the
default skin (Classic?)

Comment 10

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Is this a dupe of bug 188138?  Looks like it.

Comment 11

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duping due to [dupeme] keyword and confirmation from Felix in another bug.

Move your votes!

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

Comment 12

[Felix Miata]

v dupe

Comment 13

[Robert Glover]

*** Bug 209076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***