199093 - Message preview pane does not stick closed when user has moved the separater bar all the way to the bottom between window opens

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77447

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Scott G. Hall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216

I always pull down the bottom separator between the message list pane and the
preview pane all the way to the bottom so as to avoid previewing (reading) any
messages until I select one to read.  But this position does not stick (as it
did in Netscape 4.x and previous).

Every time the message/news front end opens, either upon starting Mozilla,
selecting and double-clicking a folder or clicking the "Mail & Newsgroups" icon
at the bottom of the browser window, a preview pane is made visible at the
bottom with at least one-lines height.  This happene no matter what the window
settings in preferences are set for window arrangement.

It makes it very inconvinent pull down the separator to the bottom again, and
then immediately re-mark the message as unread, every time the window opens.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. With a list of messages displayed in the list pane, pull down the separator
between that pane and the preview pane all the way to the bottom, so that the
little arrows are pointing up.
2. Double click on any message to open it in separate window (just to do something).
3. Now either double click on another folder; or exit the mail&news reader and
reenter it.
Actual Results:  
You will see that the bottom preview pane now display's at least one line of the
message, and that it is no longer on the bottom, and the little arrows are
pointing down.

Expected Results:  
As in Netscape 3.x and 4.x, when the bottom separator has been pulled to the
bottom, it should stick there.  Anytime a new front-end window opens, the bottom
separator should still be on the bottom with the little arrows pointing up, and
no messages are previewed or turned to "read".

Workaround:

Just continue to pull the bottom separator to the bottom until the little arrows
point up, each time the mail&news front-end opens.  Then immediatly click on the
just-previewed message's read indicator to set it as unread again -- unless it
really was a message already read, then leave the indicator alone.  Or if you
want to go ahead and read the message, ignore the indicator setting, and just
double click on the message as normal.

Comment 1

[u63580]

Not seing this in current nightlies.  Why not just close the pane all toghether?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Scott Hall, are you using the "alt 3-pane layout"?  That is the layout where the 
message pane stretches across the full width of the window, with the folder and 
thread pane above it (rather than the folder pane taking the full height, with 
the thread and message panes to its right).

If so, this sounds like bug 77447; if you agree, please mark this bug as a 
duplicate of that one.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter; marking as dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77447 ***