679667 - Headers-only messages are not distinguishable from messages which have been downloaded

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Alex]

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0C)

Steps to reproduce:

Downloaded header for message.


Actual results:

Incomplete message has the same icon as normal one.


Expected results:

It should be clearly shown as inclomplete message.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Karsten, we have no such provisions for this in UI, correct? 
Would we even want/accept such a thing?
 
I don't recall ever seeing a request like this before.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

On which version was this seen? MSIE is of no interest to Mozilla developers, and SeaMonkey 2.2 is obsolete. Version → Trunk on the assumption that this is ongoing behaviour, which started at some point lost in the mists of time (Netscape 4 or earlier, maybe), and which never ceased to be. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

There are messages (usually spam) which are sent without a body; I suppose this bug report is not about _that_ kind of headers-only messages. Otherwise, I don't use IMAP, and I have SeaMonkey Mail configured to download the full headers & body of POP, MoveMail and RSS/Atom messages. About NNTP newsgroup messages I am less sure, but I indeed don't see any difference between messages which have been fully downloaded and those (if any) only whose /headers/ have been downloaded.