379335 - Menu System (View > Messages) disappears after clicking on message in Mailbox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 332802

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Adam Spann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

After launching Thunderbird, able to do "View > Messages" located between "Sort By " and "Threads". After logging into IMAP server. "View > Messages" still accessable. After Clicking on a message in any folder, "Messages" is no longer listed under "View"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch ThunderBird
2. Check menu "View"
3. Access Email Folder list, Enter password is required.
4. Click on any Email in any Folder
5. Check Menu "View"
Actual Results:  
Under the Menu, "View" no longer shows an option to acesss "Messages"
Used to create various personal View of Email folder Contents.

Expected Results:  
"Messages" should no vanish as an option under "Views"

I upgraded from the previous current version of thunderbird 1.5.x
I had created personal views on particular folders, from these views I had created view Folders, (Saved Searches)
Views were successfully imported into 2.0.0.0, Unable to manage these views under 2.0.0.0 when (View > Message) unavailable.
Screen shots available as png files.

Comment 1

[Adam Spann]

Attachment: View > Messages working

Comment 2

[Adam Spann]

Attachment: Screen shot with "View > Messages" unavailable

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's available, but you have to customize the toolbar to include the mail views toolbar item.