281045 - Selecting one message after all are selected sometimes fails to display

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tal Cohen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

If one message is selected, and you select all messages, then selecting the 
original message again (specifically, the one message that was selected before) 
will fail to refresh the message-content pane.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select one message in some mail folder (tested with local folders only).
2. Click Ctrl-A to select all messages. Since multiple messages are now 
selected, the message-content pane is emptied.
3. Click (using mouse) on the message that was selected in step 1.

Actual Results:  
The message content pane remains empty.

Expected Results:  
It should display the re-selected single message. Note that if a *different* 
single message was selected (not the originally-selected one), everything works 
fine and the content-pane is properly filled.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Tal Cohen]

In reply to the automated message: this bug is still reproducible.

Comment 3

[Terrence Cole [:terrence]]

This bug is demonstrated when making _any_ multiple selection, not only Ctrl+A for Select All.  e.g.  Click on one message, hold Shift or Ctrl to select other messages, then (without holding a modifier) click on the original message again -- the message window remains blank.

This is demonstrated on Linux Thunderbird 1.0.7 using:
gtk+ 2.8.10
glib 2.8.5 
gdk 2.8.10

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported Thunderbird version 2 is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to the last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.