203483 - Do not select any account at start

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[phil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

This ticket is written in relation to Mike Cowperthwaite's bug 194609, comment #2 

Item 1: when launching "Mail & Newsgroups" if you have more than one email
account, the first account name is already highlighted (= selected) in th
eFolder pane. 
Item 2: when the toolbar button "Get new messages" is pressed, that's the
currently selected mail account that is checked for new message.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create 2 or more working emails accounts
2. send a message to these emails accounts, but do not retrieve them
3. close the "Mail & Newsgroups" and re-open it
4. press the toolbar button "get new messages"

Actual Results:  
Only the messages for the first account get downloaded (as it is the one
selected at the openning)

Expected Results:  
Openning the "Mail & Newsgroups" should not select any account at all by default
(no account name highlighted in the Folder pane). 
All the accounts should be checked for new messages if the button is pressed
while no account is selected. The button would in that case do "Get all new
messages".


The current behavior of the button is not in cause: it's logical the selected
item is the target of the action performed by the button. The problem is really
in the fact that there is no way today to have all the mail account names
unselected at some time. At least upon loading "Mail & Newsgroups", this should
be the case.

The workflow would be:
I open the mail application then press the button in the toolbar to get all the
new messages I have in my different accounts. Today I need to precisely aim at
the arrow on the button and move the mouse to select "get all new messages"
If I want to check only one account, I only have to select that account after
the application started, and press the button.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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