520861 - tabmail confusion with Sent folders (From/Recipient columns)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Robert Kaiser]

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091006 Lightning/1.0pre SeaMonkey/2.0pre

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open a normal folder (e.g. Inbox or a newsgroup) in mailnews.
2) Open a Sent folder in a new tab, note that "From" column in thread pane gets replaced with "Repcipient" as wanted.
3) Switch back to the first tab.


Actual results:

The normal folder still has the "Recipient" column instead of "From", which is mostly yourself or, in case of newsgroups, even empty.


Expected results:

"Recipient" column only shown in "Sent" tab, "From" shown in normal folder's tab.


Additional info:

If I open another normal folder in another new tab or switch to another normal folder in the original tab, all tabs are back to "From", including the one with "Sent" - looks like we only switch the thread pane columns when loading a new folder through some means and not realize this is needed on a mere tab switch.

Comment 1

[:Hb]

Confirmed on Windows XP too.

Comment 2

[nas]

Build identifier:  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091215 SeaMonkey/2.1a1pre

this happened to me too,

Comment 3

[Tibor]

Still exists in:
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40

Seems to be an "old feature" by now.