220334 - Next Message fails with multiple messages open

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Andrew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916

One must have at least a mail server and a news server configured for this to occur.

I have the curtain down on my Mail/News Mozilla client, and the "open message in
new window" option set.

If reading a newsgroup, and using the N hotkey to go to the next new message,
this can fail if one goes back to the Mail/News client, clicks the email server,
 opens a message, and then returns to the message from the news server.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close the curtain in the mail/news window, and set the option to open
messages in a new window.
2. Read a newsgroup, using the N key to go to the next unread message
3. With a news message window open, return to the Mail/News window, select a
mail server, double click a message (which opens a window), and read it.
4. Leave the mail message window open.  Return to the news message window.
5. Hit N.  Hit N some more.  I actually see the title of this window change, but
it does not load new messages, nor does it reduce the new message count in the
server window.

Actual Results:  
Unread messages do not show in the message window.  If you select the newsgroup
for the server from which the current message in the message window came from,
hitting N will take you to the next undread, but because you hit N a few times,
there are some unread messages before the current one you now see.

Expected Results:  
I'd expect that hitting N in a message window would show the next message in
that context

Comment 1

[Andrew]

Also, it appears that once all the messages are read in the current group, you
get prompted to move to the next group.  Yet hitting OK from the dialog that
shows does nothing, and keeps the current message there.

This situation may only appear once the above steps occur, as this is the first
time I've been able to replicatate the brokenness of reading the next unread
message and the lack of going to the next newsgroup with unread messages,
despite the client indicating you'll be going there.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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