300429 - mail subject view window not scrolling up to reveal new messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218935

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Rick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: version 1.0.2 (20050317)

The mail subject view window does not scroll up to reveal new messages that are
sorted with the newest mail on the bottom (ascending? view)  User must manually
scrool window to reveal the new mail messages.  All new messages are hidden
until the user scrolls the window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select to sort by date with the newest messages on the bottom
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
New mail was hidden until user scrolled window

Expected Results:  
Software should automatically scroll the new messages received into view

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Duplicate of bug 250870 or bug 93856?

Comment 2

[Rick]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Duplicate of bug 250870 or bug 93856?


No I don't think so.  They are sorting their messages with the newest mail on
top.  I have my newest mail at the bottom.  Here is an example:

Subject:                  Date:
Hi there                  04/23/2005
Howdy                     04/24/2005
Hiya                      05/01/2005

Lets say that I only show the first three email subjects in the main window, any
new messages would be placed after hiya (as they arrived after it) and I would
have to scroll down to see them.  The program should automatically scroll down
to show them.

I did a search to see if this bug was listed and didn't see one...but I have
been known to look as well as my 3 year old nephew.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I think bug 93856 (which is against the suite) was seeking automatic scrolling 
at either end, altho it was originally reported for top-is-newest (descending).  
Bug 250870, explicitly for the descending case, claims that the desired behavior 
did exist (at least in TB) for top-is-newest but then disappeared at some point.

This dupe, however, is for TB with ascending-by-date sorting.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218935 ***