461100 - Message pane not always and/or not completely updated until window has focus

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081021 Shredder/3.0b1pre

I'm using the new code checked in from bug 262319.  My sorting is set to Date, Descending, Threaded and my message pane is on.  All emails sent in these examples are from an external client.

Test case #1:

Send yourself two messages with different subjects.  The top of your inbox should look like:

    * message two
    * message one

Now send yourself another message with the subject of "message one" without giving the Shredder window focus.  The top of the inbox now looks like:

[+] * message one
    * message one

Give the window focus and you see the correct values:

[+] * message one
    * message two

Test case #2 (Using the result of the first test case):
Your inbox looks like this:

[+] * message one
    * message two

Highlight the "message one" row and click the delete button twice.  This will have the effect of reading each "message one" and deleting them and finally reading and highlighting message two.  Press ctrl-z to undelete the last "message one" Your inbox now looks like:

      message one
      message two

Send yourself another email with "message one" as the subject.  You'll receive a popup notification of the new email but the message pane won't show the change until the window has focus.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Maybe it's just bug-overload talking, but this sounds familiar, even though bug 93923 is all I can find.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Wil, still see this with v3.0?

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

I can't follow the steps exactly due to deleting a collapsed thread now deleting the whole thing.  However, the original bug appears fixed.  On the other hand (and this may be by design), the email messages are no longer threaded (maybe it's using headers instead of the subject?)

At the end of the steps I had these in my inbox:
      message one
      message two

If I sent another email (with either subject) it would appear as a new thread, eg:
      message one
      message one
      message two