[MlMt] Ghost messages in message list pane

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 9 Mar 2018, at 4:25, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 6 Mar 2018, at 14:20, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> This is an odd one.  Running r5460, every once in a while when 
>> switching mailboxes, a message from the swtiched-away-from mailbox 
>> remains in the message list pane of the new mailbox, alongside the 
>> messages from the new mailbox.  If I subsequently switch away from, 
>> then back to the new mailbox, the phantom message is gone.
>>
>> I wish I had more detail to report.  I've seen this about three time 
>> over the last week to so.  I have never tried to select that phantom 
>> message.  The most recent time (just now), I was switching from a 
>> submailbox of a smart mailbox in one account to a submailbox of a 
>> smart mailbox in a different account.
>>
>> Is there any more information I can capture the next time I see this 
>> to help debug it?
>
> You can enable the “Source Mailbox” column in the message list to 
> make sure you know where the message is really located. There's 1 
> known issue which could be related to this, but you are welcome to 
> describe an order of events to recreate it if possible. I'll then test 
> that as well when fixing the other issue.

I see this constantly -- I always thought it was a feature, since it let 
you see again the last message you had viewed...


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb