68345 - Don't show Mail Start Page before Account Central loads

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2001-02-09-04: NT4

Overview: If Logon at Startup is selected, the 3pane layout with the Mail Start
page flashes and then it displays the Account Central page. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select the "Log onto this account at Startup of Mail"
2. Exit, restart Mail

Actual Results: 
1. Flashing problem
- The 3pane layout appears with the Mail Start page in the message pane. It
displays current news of the day.
- Quickly it flashes to the Account Central page which is strange, a novice user
will wonder what they saw.

Expected Results: If the Logon at Startup option is selected then Mail should
automatically show the Account Central page. It would be much cleaner, less
confusing.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because we don't want to confuse novice users.

Thanks to Laurel for pointing this out.

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Assigning to Bhuvan.

Comment 3

[Ninoschka Baca]

Correction. Step #1 should actually state:
1. Verify that the Logon at Startup option is Not selected. (This allows for the
Account Central page to appear)

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

Bhuvan or Ninoschka, do these problems go away with Bhuvan's recent checkins to
change the meaning of the startup pref?

Comment 5

[racham]

The problem still exists for any given account that goes to AccountCentral first
i.e., all those accounts for which 'Check for new mail at startup' option is
unchecked.

As the AccountCentral is getting triggered only after a folder is selected in
the folder pane and that is little too late for message pane to not to display
the startpage..So, I think we can simply clear the messagepane when we detect
that we are going to display the account central page.

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1-

Comment 7

[racham]

*** Bug 117106 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

Would not loading the start page in the messenger onload fix this?
There is already code to load the start page after the folder is loaded.

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Proposed Patch

When the default account is set to check for mail at start up, the start page
still loads. When it is not set the check for mail at start up, the start page
does not load. Note: testing was done with a start page of
javascript:alert('Start');

Comment 10

[Sean Su]

I talked to bhuvan on how to reproduce this, but I'm not seeing the problem
under NT4 or win2k.  nbaca, can you reproduce this problem with today's build?

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

Sean, the easiest way to reproduce this is to use an obvious start page -
javascript:alert('Show the Start Page') for example - and turn off check for new
mail at startup, of course.

Comment 12

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 13

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

-> me.

Comment 14

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

We already call this elsewhere, and I've verified that removing the call in
msgMail3PaneWindow.js still enables loadStartPage() to be called (with my POP3
account):

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/base/resources/content/commandglue.js#793

791     if (gDisplayStartupPage)
792     {
793         loadStartPage();
794         gDisplayStartupPage = false;
795         UpdateMailToolbar("gDisplayStartupPage");

Comment 15

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Comment on attachment 74553 [details] [diff] [review]
Proposed Patch

David, I'm not sure if I qualify to mark this as r=me, but I've tested this and
it's worked fine with my POP3 account...

Comment 16

[[e-mail]]

Fix checked in.

Comment 17

[[e-mail]]

*** Bug 61950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED