350713 - opening mail from inbox destructively replaces current open mail

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Gary]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.5 (20060719)

If I double click on an email in my inbox it opens in a new window, if I then switch back to my window (eg using Alt+Tab) and double click on a different email this email then opens in the window the first email was in.  Basically you can only have one email viewing window at a time, which is fairly inconvenient.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.double click on email in inbox
2.switch back to main T-bird window
3.double click on different email

Actual Results:  
mail window which opened on step one was destructively replaced after step 3

Expected Results:  
opened another window so I would have two email viewing windows as well as the main T-bird window.

I haven't really tuned T-bird for any special theme or such.  It's pretty much default.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Tools | Options | Advanced | General
Open New Messages in:
  () A new message window   (x) An existing message window