517663 - Reply/Forward/Tag (1-5) operate on initial message in standalone message window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 514876

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Reply (All), Forward and tagging (using keys 1-5) all operate on the message that the standalone message window has been opened with in the beginning. At least that's what it seems like, it's neither the current message that you see after navigating to another message nor the message currently selected in the thread pane if you changed the selection there.

This is most probably a regression from bug 460960 (tabmail). See bug 514876 for a another case.

Short analysis:
All three methods above eventually call GetLoadedMessage() in messageWindows.js which returns gCurrentMessageUri. It seems that variable is not updated correctly (any more). It is set by messagepaneObserver.onDrop(), nsMsgDBViewCommandUpdater.displayMessageChanged(), OnLoadMessageWindow(), and reset by ClearMessageSelection().

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

Wanted for sure, possibly this could even be blocking, but I suspect it could easily end up as a dupe of bug 514876 in the end for having the same root cause.

Comment 2

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Yes, dupe of bug 514876.