269596 - If an e-mail contains many attachments, the attachment pane takes all the window space

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 242531

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Tom Link]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

I use Thunderbird 0.9 (20041103). If you're subscribed to a mailing list and
receiving e-mails in digest format (as attachments), it often happens that one
digest contains 30 attachments or more (e.g. R-Help Digest,
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help). In such a case, the attachment
pane often takes the whole window so that there is no space left for the actual
message pane.  I think it would be preferable if the attachment pane would never
grow larger than say 8 lines and if one could scroll the attachment pane. Also,
it would sometimes be preferable to be able to click on an attached e-mail and
to open this e-mail in the current window (maybe, if the current window already
displays an attached e-mail) instead of opening a new window. (But this probably
is beyond a simple "bug" report.)

This is maybe related to bug #223340, I guess, but this bug report doesn't
mention the message pane problem and appears to relate to inline display of
attached e-mails or so (or maybe I misunderstood it).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose an e-mail and attach a text file with a long file name for ~40 times
2. Send this e-mail to yourself
3. Read it

Actual Results:  
If you open such an e-mail, you only see the header area and the attachment
pane. (At least here on my computer.)

Expected Results:  
Always show the message pane. The message pane must not get smaller than a
defined number of lines. (BTW, in TB 0.9 the result is even worse because the
file names aren't truncated -- it seems.)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm not sure -- are you describing bug 242531?
If you don't think your bug is either that one or 223340, can you provide a 
screenshot (smaller is better) showing your symptom?  (Attach to this bug using 
the Create New Attachment link above.)

Comment 2

[Tom Link]

Attachment: Screenshot

There is no scrollbar either but, as you can easily see, this is not the main
problem. If you open an attached e-mail, you get a similar looking window.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Ah, this is a dupe -- on constructing a test message with many attachments, I 
see the difference: your screenshot is for a standalone message, that bug's 
screenshot is for the 3pane.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242531 ***