From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Description of problem: This is a weird one. Selecting the last two (or more; the important distinction is that the last message be selected) messages in a folder's message index, then selecting another random message from the index (hit an arrow key to deselect the group, or click on another message), then hit 'q' to view the preview of that message, and you get a blank preview pane. Closing preview and opening again retains a blank pane. Selecting another message after that, and previewing it, works again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select a mail folder with multiple messages in it. 2. Visually select the last two messages in the folder. 3. Select the any message in the folder (use the up or down arrow, or click on another message), which will deselect the group. 4. Press 'q' to view the preview pane. Note that the message is not displayed. 5. Press 'q' again to hide it, and press it again to see that the message will still not be displayed. 6. Select another message. The preview pane should display that message. Additional info: Obviously, not a huge problem. Just thought it was a weird little oddity.
I can't reproduce this here locally... is it always reproducible for you? Tied in any way maybe to HTML messages?
I can reproduce it every time, in any folder with more than two messages. The two selected messages can be of any content-type, I've tried it with both text and html. The result is always a blank preview window, just like you'd get if multiple messages are selected and you press 'q' to open it up. My best guess is that evolution still thinks that multiple messages are selected, and refuses to display anything. Something important I failed to mention in the original bug report: this is with IMAP folders (server is courier-imap). Lemme test how this works with local folders...yep, same problem. If I have a spare minute (hour? weekend?) this might be the kick in the butt I've been needing to take a stroll through the evolution source. ;-) For the record, this is a from-scratch installation of RH 8.0, and a fresh run of evolution, nothing held-over from another system. I vaguely remember something similar happening with another 7.2 system running Ximian's build of evolution, but didn't spend a whole lot of time looking at it at the time. Hmmm, wait a minute... Yep. I'm not the only one who noticed: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=27757 Looks like it was a gal bug. Hope this helps!
Don't see the obvious changelog entry where the fix was committed and it definitely doesn't seem to be in the evolution-1-0-branch of gal, so fixing it will probably have to wait until gal gets bumped for evolution 1.2
This may well be fixed in rawhide, then, it sounds like.
Yep should be fixed in rawhide now