239996 - Standalone message window does not hide message headers when news message body not present

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[:aceman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040305 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040305 Firefox/0.8.0+

If I switch from viewing a normal mail message to displaying a news message in
the same standalone window, and the news message is not available offline, the
headers of the first message are still shown.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.download some new news headers but do not read them. Go offline.
2.set the pref user_pref("mailnews.nav_crosses_folders", 0);
3.maybe restart Moz?
4.view a normal mail message in the standalone message window (double click)
5.press Next icon until a news message is displayed, that has its body not
available (the explanation text should appear).
Actual Results:  
The window still shows the header (sender, date) of the last normal mail message
displayed.

Expected Results:  
The header space should be hidden - in the same way as doubleclicking on an
unavailable news message would do.

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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Comment 3

[:aceman]

I can still reproduce on the latest thunderbird 2.0.0.16 on linux. It is a minor glitch, but can mislead the user as to which message is actually not available. He may think the body of the email message just disappeared.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

aceman, are you able to test trunk?
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/

Comment 5

[:aceman]

Yes I could, but I have no usable news server. Can you tell me the new address for the mozilla newsgroups?

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Sure :
news.mozilla.org

Comment 7

[:aceman]

I tested this in 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090801 Shredder/3.0b4pre'. I am not sure what the results are...

When I view a normal email message in the standalone window (actually a tab now), it is fine. Now going to the next unread message ('n' key) prompts 'Advance to next unread message in mozilla.announce.prerelease?' which is correct, this is my next 'folder' that has unread messages. Their bodies are not downloaded for offline use. Answering 'No' does nothing. Answering 'Yes' closes the message tab thus returning me to the folder tree pane. That is strange.

So, it actually doesn't exhibit the bug as described, but has a new bug - it doesn't go to the next unread message. Or did I do anything incorrectly?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

presently, I can't get to newsgroup from standalone message with F or N using 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091117 Thunderbird/3.0

Comment 9

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> When I view a normal email message in the standalone window (actually a tab
> now), it is fine. Now going to the next unread message ('n' key) prompts
> 'Advance to next unread message in mozilla.announce.prerelease?' which is
> correct, this is my next 'folder' that has unread messages. Their bodies are
> not downloaded for offline use. Answering 'No' does nothing. Answering 'Yes'
> closes the message tab thus returning me to the folder tree pane. That is
> strange.

That bug would be exhibited in bug 545218.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM per comment 7