542505 - Clicking new mail notification icon in the system tray opens last message window not the Inbox window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[mshillinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1

Thunderbird is configured to open messages in new window.  If I click on the new mail notification icon AND a message window is currently open, it will display the message window.  I would expect it should display the window containing my Inbox, not the last message read.  If there is not a message window open, then it works as expected.  If I configure Thunderbird to open new messages in a "tab", it works as expected.  I am guessing the notification code assumes I am using the tabbed message interface.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure to open messages in new window
2.Open a message so the inbox and a message are in different windows
3.Wait for a new message to arrive
4.When the new mail notification icon is displayed in the tray, click on it

Actual Results:  
The window containing the message is displayed, not with window with the Inbox

Expected Results:  
The window containing the Inbox should be displayed

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

mshillinger, do you still see this problem.

I am seeing same behavior for both settings - open in new window and open in new tab - only the 3pane window is opened with message in preview. No extra tab or window is opened

Same as bug 937909?

Comment 2

[Philipp]

Can verify that this happens always.
It's also an issue for me because I open ".eml" files, which always open in a new window. These windows then "block" the new email notification.

Comment 3

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

This works now, probably as a result of bug 1840092.