273082 - on launch, should show Inbox (or last folder selected), not start page

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[dyeh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
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Using Thunderbird rc1 for OS X-- 
When I launch the program, I want the window to display the last folder selected (usually Inbox).  
Instead, everytime I launch, it displays the Thunderbird Start Screen (the one that has Email--
Accounts--Advanced Features selections).  I thought this was related to the Thunderbird Start Page in 
the General preferences pane, but I unchecked this and it still does the same thing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

if you select download new mail at startup, your inbox will be selected...that's
the way it works...

Comment 2

[dyeh]

Hmm... I suppose that is OK.  However, (and I may be in the minority), oftentimes when I open my mail 
program, I just want to manipulate my inbox (read previously downloaded messages, sort mail, 
compose replies, etc.) without checking for new mail (I might not even be connected to the net). I 
realize that even with the start page, the inbox is just one click away, but I'm just lazy and like getting 
right to work when the app opens.  Also, I don't see the start page as being so incredibly useful (all its 
functions are accessible by the menu bar or toolbar) that it needs to be displayed at all in place of the 
normal inbox contents view.  Just some thoughts.

(In reply to comment #1)
> if you select download new mail at startup, your inbox will be selected...that's
> the way it works...

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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