22895 - Open first message when opening folder

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 10872

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Zach]

When a mail folder is opened, the first message should automatically be
displayed in the message pane.

Bugs 20446 and 17074 along with this one are the only reason I am still using NS
4.7 for mail most of the time.  In Mozilla it takes 6 clicks and about 20-25
seconds until I see the first message, compared to 1 click/3 seconds in NS 4.7.
(The 6 clicks: 1. start mailnews; 2. expand account; 3. open folder; 4. date
column for oldest first; 5. date column again, for newest first; 6. open first
message).

Linux build 2000.01.02.09

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

I completely agree that it takes much too long to get mail going and reading
messages. We're working on that.

However, I don't agree with the suggestion that we should read the first message
in the folder. We should read the last selected message, which is what 4.x does,
and is already covered in bug 10872.

I'm going to mark this a dup, but if you feel strongly that your suggestion is
better than our intended solution, we can enter a [help wanted] bug to make it a
user preference.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10872 ***

Comment 2

[Richard Zach]

I don't really feel strongly either way, but just in case this makes a
difference:
my Linux version of NS 4.7 opens the first message in the folder, not the last
selected message.

Comment 3

[Phil Peterson]

That would be a bug :-)  4.x is full of minor variances like that across
platforms. Since mozilla shares much more code across platforms, we hope to fix
that this time around.

Comment 4

[fenella]

Mark it verified/dup.