265099 - Quick view filter (ToDo, etc) is reapplied automatically after a time. Loses current selected message in Subject/Sender view.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261682

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Casey Crabb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8

The quick view filter (all, unread, important, todo, etc) will reapply itself
automatically. When it does this my focus is placed in the Search field and the
currently selected email is de-selected in the list view. The message itself is
still displayed. This is irritating when you are viewing unread emails because
thunderbird will mark it read, then reapply the filter and the message won't
even be in the list anymore. Additionally, I can't use keyboard navigation to
scroll the message window without tabbing to it first (since my focus was moved
to the search bar). This happens for all quick views *except* the "All" view.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I'm using IMAP for my mail, the server is running the slackware-default imapd.
I also have it set to check for mail every minute. (I've disabled this and can
still reproduce the problem)

1. Label three messages "Important" by right-clicking on them in the list view
and selecting Label->Important

2. Change your view to Important messages by selecting the Important option from
the View quick menu above the list view.

3. Select the middle of the three important messages

4. Wait. It can take between 10 seconds and 10 minutes for the problem to occur.

5. Witness the message being deselected, the list view scrolling to the top, and
your focus being placed in the search bar.


Repeat the above with the unread filter and unread messages. Witness your unread
message being marked complete and when the quick filter is reapplied your
message isn't even in the list anymore.

Actual Results:  
Witness the message being deselected, the list view scrolling to the top, and
your focus being placed in the search bar.

Expected Results:  
Software should never set my focus for me except on first window popup.
Software should not automatically reset/reapply the view filter, losing my
selected message and focus.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

please try a newer .8 nightly build, like this one, or later:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2004-10-18-05-0.8/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261682 ***