310065 - mailnews.nav_crosses_folders should also affect "Go > Previous > Unread Message"

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Tom Eicher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

If mailnews.nav_crosses_folders is turned to 0 (= go to next folder without
asking), pressing 'N' will take me to the next unread message in any folder.

Pressing 'P' or choosing "Go > Previous > Unread Message" from the menu only
works in the current folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have some unread mail in mailbox folder
2. read some news in a folder further down, decide to go back to an unread mail
message further up
3. press 'P'

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
The previous folder containing an unread message is opened and the last unread
message in it selected.

Comment 1

[Magnus Holmgren]

I wonder why this hasn't been reported before. Or maybe it has.

Anyway, it's probably OS independent (same behaviour on Windows at least).

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

*** Bug 314377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming RFE. xref bug 66466.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

mailnews.nav_crosses_folders was implemented in bug 67072.
'P' (previous) should mirror 'N' (next).
nominating for TB3

Comment 7

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I don't think this will get the traction to get fixed for TB3 but it's a worthwhile consistency issue

Comment 8

[Chuck McKinnis]

Looks like it really got fixed in TB3 (WinXP).  Setting the value to 0 produces absolutely nothing.  The "Next" button is completely grayed out.  Setting the value to 1 gets the "Next" button back, but selecting it produces the normal pop-up window.