Bug 3443

Summary:	abnormal behaviour when an open message is deleted
Product:	Claws Mail (GTK 2)	Reporter:	anton92
Component:	UI/Message View	Assignee:	users
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.11.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description anton92 2015-06-20 04:33:28 UTC

When I delete an open message by pressing <del>, I get
the message "Message has been deleted or moved to another folder", and the message window is not closed.

Naturaly, what I would expect is that, upon deleting the message with <del>,
that window should close automatically.

Moreover, due to this strange behavior another problem is likely to result: since the focus is silently shifted to the background window, containing the listing of the messages, the user may keep pressing <del> in the attempt to make the foreground empty window disappear, or may press <del> more than once, to make sure that the message was actually delete. All the while, each time <del> is pressed, a message gets deleted in the background window, unbeknown to
the user.

Comment 1 Paul 2015-06-20 10:27:09 UTC

Changing to 'enhancement' as 'not doing what you expect' does not equate to a bug.

And your second point, the user may keep pressing <del>, but that would be user error.

Comment 2 anton92 2015-06-20 16:13:12 UTC

What I expect, in this case, is the standard behavior of practically all email programs: if an email gets deleted,the window is also closed automatically?

May I ask what is the benefit of keeping the window open and of displaying that message telling you that your email message has been deleted?!?