500677 - When multiple messages are selected, delete and undelete navigate to a different message than if a single message is selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 501161

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Saul Tannenbaum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090626 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre

If one selects two or messages (it doesn't matter whether they are adjoining or disjoint), and deletes them, the next message selected after delete is the last message in the message list pane based on the current sort order of that pane.

With one message selected, next message selected is the message subsequent to the selected message. 

Note: I have "When I delete a message" set to "Just mark it as deleted"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select multiple messages
2.Delete (or, if they are already marked as delete, undelete)
3.
Actual Results:  
Message selection jumps to the last message in the message list pane. If you're sorted by date, it's the most recent message. If you're sorted by "From:", it's the last in alphabetical order.

Expected Results:  
Message selection should be to the next message, not jump to the end. That is, the behavior should be identical to having a single message selected.

This is a recent problem but, having skipped a number of nightlies, I can't identify which one was the first with this problem.