191406 - Delete key non-functional in stand-alone message window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90539

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6

The delete key fails to delete the opened message when viewed in the stand-alone
message window.  I am having this problem on Mac, Linux and Windows versions of
1.2.1.  Clicking the toolbar buttons works okay.  I thought this may be a focus
issue, so I've tried to tab around, but delete never works.

As an aside, shift+delete does work, but I only today realized that for many
days now I've been permanently nuking messages, rather than moving them to my
Trash folder.  This was not a pleasant surprise...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a message in a stand-alone window.
2. Press delete: nothing happens.
3. Click the toolbar delete button: message is deleted.
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens after step #2 (the message stays in its folder and the
stand-alone window's contents are unchanged).

After step #3, the window may show the next unread message or it may return to
the folder view.

Expected Results:  
Pressing the delete key should have the same effect as clicking the delete
toolbar button.

Occurs using both the classic and modern themes.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90539 ***