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Bug 261397 - A displayed message window goes blank if message leaves vFolder
A displayed message window goes blank if message leaves vFolder
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
1.5.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[vfolders]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-07-11 05:17 UTC by Andrew Cowie
Modified: 2012-06-16 18:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Andrew Cowie 2004-07-11 05:17:03 UTC
Description of Problem:

A vFolder whose contents change a great deal messes up message display. For
example, a common use case is to use a vFolder to collect unread messages,
so a criteria on the message selection is "status | is not | read"

When you have a message from such a vFolder displayed in a window, things
are fine until the vFolder changes. If the message leaves the vFolder, ie
because it's not unread any more and a background mailcheck redoes the
vFolder, THE MESSAGE DISPLAY WINDOW GOES BLANK. This is a bit silly, as the
underlying message hasn't gone away at all. It is still in its source
folder - just not in the vFolder. 

(delete + expunge underneath a displayed message seems to have this effect,
which admittedly makes more sense - if you've deleted it, then there is
every reason for the message to no longer be displayed)


Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. create a vFolder which is subject to dynamic conditions, ie "not read"
2. view a message
3. refresh the vFolders (mail check, Ctrl-E Expunge, etc) causing the
message to no longer be in the vFolder

Actual Results:

Message window goes blank!

Expected Results:

Message window, since it's standalone, should continue to display the
message - very disconcerting when you are in the midst of reading an email
and it suddenly goes blank.

How often does this happen? 

Quite a bit - enough to be more than a "oh, what was that, hmm" and be 
annoying from a usability perspective: "oh, dammit, that happened again"

AfC
Comment 1 André Klapper 2005-02-14 11:40:50 UTC
adding vfolders keyword.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-06-05 14:09:23 UTC
retargetting from 2.1 to 2.3 to get rid of all that recent milestones...
Comment 3 Andrew Cowie 2006-04-03 13:52:03 UTC
Any word on this? 2.3 has rather passed us by...

AfC
Comment 4 Adam McMaster 2006-09-20 19:47:52 UTC
I was about to open a new bug about getting a blank message window when deleting the last message with "Hide deleted messages" enabled.  I guess this bug is the same thing, though I can't reproduce what is described in the original report.  In this case the message window should be closed, since there is nothing to display.  Using Evolution 2.8.0 on Gnome 2.16.0.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2012-06-16 18:07:26 UTC
afc: Bug report here should be superseded/obsoleted by the fix for bug 562912.
If not, please reopen.

Adam: That was a different issue - see bug 206015.