309891 - Many attachments hide body text window -- make it unavilable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 223340

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[samuel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)

If you have a message with many attachments (for example, forwarding 30 or 40
messages from a mailing list), the attachment window can get so big that it
hides the text body of the message.

If you have enough attachments (and/or with long enough names), the attachment
window can grow to the point where it is impossible to see the text window

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send yourself with many attachments with long names (e.g. 30-40 mailing list
messages)
2. view the message
3. If necesssary, shrink the window until the message body box  disappears.
4. Attempt to view body text without expanding the window

Actual Results:  
Cannot view message body box

Expected Results:  
resizable attachment window W/ scrollbar
3-pane message view (like with the old mozilla reader) would be nice (as an
option?)  -- as mentioned by bug 251811

A sample email can be found at: http://www.bcgreen.com/reports/many-attach.eml
How you import it into your email program is your problem. Appending it to (or
using it as) an mbox file should work.

This isn't quite a data LOSS issue, but it can make critical data unavailable
from the GUI  (you would have to do something like view the raw source, which
could be difficult for HTML format messages).

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223340 ***

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!