Closed Bug 8985 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

The keyboard Delete key does not delete a mail like NOVA

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Backend
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: fenella, Assigned: mscott)

References

Details

Win32 (1999-06-28-08 m8) and Mac(1999-06-28-09 m8)
stes:
1. Select a mail message from the Inbox
2. Press the Delete button from the keyboard, nothing happens
Expected result: Message should be deleted like Nova on Mac and Win32.
This problem occurs on all three platforms.
Since the Delete button does not work on Linux for Nova, I am not sure I should
mark this a All platform bug.
OS: Windows NT → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: The keyboard Delete button does not delete a mail like NOVA → The keyboard Delete key does not delete a mail like NOVA
My apology. I meant the Delete key from the keyboard, not button.
Assignee: phil → putterman
reassigning to me.
For 5.0, the Delete key should also work on Linux for deleting a message.  We
should not have any parities among platforms.

Note: I believe that one case where the Delete key should not work is when the
user cancels a news posting.  I don't know the reasoning behind this; this is
the behavior in 4.x Win32.
QA Contact: lchiang → esther
<update qa contact>
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M11
Setting M11
Dupe of #2938.
*** Bug 2938 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
adding matty@box.net.au to cc list
Target Milestone: M11 → M12
M12
Blocks: 11091
(target milestone is M11 or M12 - add to mail beta tracking bug)
Blocks: 16349
*** Bug 18462 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Target Milestone: M12 → M14
Assignee: putterman → mscott
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
reassigning to mscott since he took this from me.
I think this is a dup of 23408?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: M14 → M13
I've added a keybinding for the delete key such that it will delete the selected
message if you click it. If you have multiple messages selected and you hit the
delete button it will delete all of the selected messages. Just like in Nova.

Marking as fixed.

Note: I haven't changed the hotkey text that shows up in the Edit menu which
says ctrl-D deletes messages. That's covered in Bug #23408
Blocks: 24206
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Here is what I find in today's builds.
Linux (2000-01-18-11-M13)
Win_nt (2000-01-18-11-M13)
Mac (2000-01-17-08-M13)
Linux:  POP and IMAP both works. Select a message and press a Delete key, it
deletes the selected message
WIn_nt 4.0 IMAP and POP: Delete key does not delete a selected message. Instead,
it proceed to the next message.
Mac: POP works, Delete key deletes the selected message
     Unable to test IMAP due to bug 24272
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I verified with Fenella that this works on her NT machine. Re-closing.
Indeed. I do not what happened. I did another new profile migration in POP and
IMAP, it works fine now.  Leave this open until MAC IMAP problem is fixed.
Linux Redhat (2000-01-20-08 M13)
Win_nt 4.0 (2000-01-20-09 M13)
Mac (2000-01-20-08 M13)
I re-tested this bug in POP and IMAP accounts on all 3 platforms. The bug is
fixed.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Linux Redhat (2000-02-28-08 M15)
Win_nt 4.0 (2000-02-28-09 M15)
Mac (2000-02-28-08 M15)
The Delete key does not delete message. This used to be working. Reopen this
bug.
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
QA Contact: esther → fenella
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Win_nt 4.0 (2000-02-28-09 M15)
I tried it again on Win_nt 4.0, it works on Win_nt 4.0. 
Mark it a Linux and Mac only bug.
It does not work on Windows for me.  

Fenella, perhaps we should close this one and just reopen a new bug.
The delete button just broke again.

See Bug #26782 for more details. It's all in there.

re-closing this one.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I am going to leave this bug Resolved/Fixed until bug 26782 is fixed.
Linux (2000-03-01-08 M15)
win32 (2000-03-01-09 M15)
The Delete key deletes messages. But ..
Mac Linux (2000-03-01-08 M15) still does not work yet.
I meant Linux and Win32 Delete button works but on Mac (2000-03-07-08 M15),
Delete button still does not work.
Mac (2000-03-20-11-M15)
problem still exists in the trunk build
Using Mac build (2000-04-07-09 M15) this problem still exists. Re-open the bug.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Target Milestone: M13 → M17
fenella: I was looking at bug #26782 -- if you are using an iMac (with that 
limited keyboard it comes with) what is labelled as "Delete" is not really 
a delete key (it is emitting a backspace). On a fullsize keyboard there is 
another "delete" key that you can use to test. [Whether this is a platform
binding issue that developers want to take into account is a separate matter].
Hmm ... maybe I should have read the history of the bug more closely :-]
(However, i thought that deleteing buddies was broken on the mac until 
i realized that that key was mislabelled).
marking fixed.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Linux (2000-027-05-08 M17)
Win32 (2000-027-05-09 M17)
Mac (2000-027-05-10 M17)
This problem has been fixed.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
No longer blocks: 24206
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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