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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">Mailmate version(s) 6255-6270</p>
<p dir="auto">This is an awkward UI issue, and persistent but minor annoyance, but it happens with many/most messages: I double-click in a message list to open a message in a new window. At the top there is a yellow banner saying, e.g., “Detected 27 external resources” along with a button to “Download (27)”.</p>
<p dir="auto">If I use the arrow keys right away, I can scroll this message up and down, but of course the external resources are shown only as placeholders. Note that I strongly prefer the keyboard to the mouse-wheel/scrollbars for scrolling.</p>
<p dir="auto">After I click on the banner button, I often end up with a red banner that says “An image with a pixel size of 1 by 1 has been downloaded”. Fine, I understand how tracker pixels work. Other times, I get another banner that offers to download more objects, but eventually the message is fully expanded.</p>
<p dir="auto">Oddly it’s not 100% but, most of the time, the arrow keys will now beep at me instead of scrolling the message. It appears the keyboard focus on the message window has been lost so the arrow keys no longer apply. Clicking inside the message window again allows the arrows keys to work as expected.</p>
<p dir="auto">It’s annoying because I don’t expect the keyboard focus to be lost simply by expanding the contents of the message body. I suspect that reloading the message with expanded content essentially creates a new window that does not retain the focus from the previous (unexpanded) view. I really want MailMate to force the keyboard focus back to the updated message body.</p>
<p dir="auto">Glenn P. Parker
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glenn.parker@comcast.net</p>
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