308842 - Too many attachments fill up message window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Joshua Reed]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050911 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050911 Firefox/1.0.6

When I receive messages with many attachments, the attachment box (listing the
attachment file names) expands to fit them.  Sometime, with A LOT of
attachments, it entirely fills up the message pane and I cannot read the message. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an email with alot of attachments. (number may vary from system to
system but over 20 or 30 usally does it for me).
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The attachment box completely filled the message pane and expanded it verticly
while shrinking the folder contents pane because EVERY attachment must be in
this list.

Expected Results:  
The software should limit the area taken by attachment listings. This could be
with either 
*an added expand/collapse button (like on the header information pane), a
*dropdown list,
*or a max size/scroll.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this is fixed in 1.5b1 and nightly builds. I'm guessing you're running a 1.0x build.