233026 - Message pane doesn't stay hidden

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77447

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Eric TF Bat]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040118

I don't want the message pane to be visible, but I can't make it stay away.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open MailNews.  The message pane is visible.
2.Select View | Show/Hide | Message Pane.  The line in the menu is ticked.
3.The Message Pane remains visible.  This is incorrect.
4.Select View | Show/Hide | Message Pane again.  (The line is still ticked.)
5.This time the Message Pane hides.  This is correct.  However...
6.Close and reopen MailNews.  The Message Pane is back.  The "show/hide" state
was not saved.  This is incorrect.



Expected Results:  
The show/hide state should be remembered.  The apparent reality is that it is
remembered, but not reflected in the UI - that's why step 2 fails.

Message panes are a pain, pardon the pun.  Lacking any apparent ability to
switch off HTML previewing, I don't want to see my spam in full colour, so I
want the pane to go away.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

In fact, you can switch off HTML previewing:  View|Message Body As|Plain Text

I'm assuming you are using the 'alt' layout for the 3pane window: message pane 
running all along the bottom, folder pane and thread pane side-by-side above.
This would be bug 77447, and I'm marking this as a dupe.

If you really want the message pane off *all* the time, just switch to the 
original 3-pane layout -- the two layouts appear virtually identical without a 
message pane.  If in fact you *already* are using the original 3-pane layout but 
still seeing this bug, that's a new thing and you should reopen this bug, and 
say so.

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