272975 - Preview pane "inconsistent" after selecting a new folder

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jim Garrison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When changing selected folders, the preview pane remains on 
the previously viewed message instead of going blank or displaying
a messaged from the newly selected folder.  This leads to an 
inconsistent view where the message displayed in the preview pane
is not in the selected folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select folder A
2. Select a message in folder A
3. Select folder B

Actual Results:  
The preview pane continues to display the message from folder A.

Expected Results:  
The preview pane should be either blank or display the first message
in folder B.

Is this related to bug 241555?

Comment 1

[Jim Garrison]

This seems to be fixed in 20041130

Comment 2

[Jim Garrison]

This bug is still happening, and appears related to the per-folder
view settings (i.e. view unread only).  Here are the steps I use
to reproduce the problem:

1) Set your Junk folder to View:Unread using the drop-down at the
   top of the window; make sure the Junk folder contains no unread
   mail.
2) Move an unread message to the Junk folder.
3) Select the Junk folder in the folder list
4) Click on the unread message to display it in the preview pane
5) Select a different folder in the folder list.  The preview pane
   will go blank or display the selected message in the new folder,
   as it should.
6) Select the Junk folder again.  Even though no messages are displayed
   in the message list, the preview pane will redisplay the last message
   seen in this folder.  I.e., it behaves as if the most recently viewed
   message in Junk is still selected.  This is probably a "buglet" in 
   and of itself, but a VERY minor annoyance.
7) Select a different folder (i.e. the Inbox).  The preview pane will
   continue to display the message in Junk.  THIS is the bug originally
   submitted.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

That described behavior does not occur for me with version 2 beta 1 (20070103). Please check if a current build is still affected for you. If yes we should reopen the bug.

Comment 7

[Jim Garrison]

This appears to be fixed in 2.0.0.1 (it may have been fixed earlier)