83503 - when message header is too wide, scroll bars and other widgets fall off right edge of window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 91662

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Eric Hedström]

steps:
Receive a message with an attachment, cc:'ed to someone with a really long email
address.

result:
in the mail header, the word Attachments: starts to the right of the longest
email address, and the list of Attachments is to the right of that. If the email
addresses are long enough, the list of attachments gets shoved right out of the
window. Some of the email addresses (including the real name) in my company's
Exchange server are > 70 characters. In that instance, all I see of the
attachments at all is "Att". Never mind being able to get to the files
themselves, unless I make the whole window about 1400 pixels wide.

Interestingly, the scroll bar for the message list above is gone, too, until I
select a different message with a narrower header.

Comment 1

[Scott Davis]

I also see the message list scroll bar disappear and the attachment list run off
the right side of the window.

It looks like the message list pane is resized to be as wide as the message
header is displayed, but that is too wide beecause of the attachment pane and
the long addresses.

This is Solaris nightly builds 2001072210 and 2001071110

Comment 2

[Scott Davis]

This could be related to fixed bug 55368. See in particular the comment from Joe
Hewitt on 2001-04-09 23:39

Comment 3

[Eric Hedström]

These days when I have one of these offending email messages selected, the
scroll bars flash in and out of view whenever I move the mouse over buttons in
the toolbar. It's really irritating.

Btw the status bar at the bottom is also resized to be as wide as the message
header, so you don't see the right end of that either.

updating platform & OS to all, summary to be a little more descriptive.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Confirming.  It's worth noting this doesn't happen with the "To:" line.

I see it in the Modern skin.  I'm too lazy to check Classic since we turned of
dynamic theme switching.  (It could easily be in one but not the other -- we
really should have common CSS so that this can be fixed for all skins easily.)

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Hmmm.  msgHeaderViewOverlay.css in modern already has:

#collapsedHeaderView,
#expandedHeaderView {
  min-width: 1px;
}

I wonder why that's not working.

Comment 6

[Håkan Waara]

Is bug 91662 a duplicate?

Comment 7

[Eric Hedström]

marking as a dup of 91662 since that one is getting attention

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91662 ***

Comment 8

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.