377468 - Clicking new mail popup selects the folder instead of the mail if the mail is moved by a filter

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Luigi Rosa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

A new mail arrives and the mail is moved to a folder different from INBOX by a filter rule. If Thunderbird is in background clicking the new mail popup brings TB in foreground, shows the new message, but the focus is on the folder instead of the message itself.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put TB in background, use another application and wait for a new message that will be moved into a folder different from INBOX
2. When the mail arrives, click on the message details in the popup box
3. Thunderbird is switched in foreground
4. Click the 'Delete' icon in the upper toolbar
5. A dialog box appears asking for a confirmation to delete the entire mailbox that contains the message
Actual Results:  
The focus is on the mailbox. Any action will have the mailbox as subject.

Expected Results:  
The focus should be on the message. Any action should have the message as subject. In the above example, the 'Delete' command should delete the message, not the mailbox.

This happens on IMAP account, not sure if it happens also on POP3

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Luigi, I tested and this is resolved in beta 1 and will become available in Thunderbird 3.  

On clicking the notification the folder is indeed focused and the message is selected. And I have no doubt it behaves in TB2 as described. But in beta 1 the behavior has changed so that a selected message is deleted and never a folder. 

Fixed by  Bug 231654 -  make delete normally only apply to the threadpane - too easy to accidentally delete folder

If you want to try beta 1, install in new directory and backup your profile first
 http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/

cc: others in case this should be better addressed in some other manner.