Using jan 6 commercial trunk If you set the thread pane view to All or Unread via the View|Messages menu item, the new "mailviews" dropdown will not be in sync with the real setting. I know we haven't ironed out all the menus and views settings yet, but this one bit me a couple times so far... Steps: 1. Open a folder, view is already set to view All Messages (both the View|Messages menu and the mailviews dropdown show All, and indeed all messages appear). 2. Set the view to Unread via the menu item View|Messages|Unread. Notice the thread pane changes to show only unread items, however the mailviews dropdown still shows the All view selected. (vice versa if in Unread view and set to All via menu)

Views selected from the View: Messages Menu and the View dropdown should match. Selecting "Unread" (or similar) from the View: Message Menu should result in the View dropdown displaying "Unread" as well. Switching the View dropdown to "All" should switch the View: Messages Menu to "All" as well. Problem: The View: Messages menu is currently a combo of Views specific to Threaded mode And specific to Non-threaded mode. I recommend that the existing View: Messages menu be broken into two, those specific to the new Message Views feature and those specific to Threads. See more details at: http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/views/#Menus

Mail triage team: nsbeta1+/adt1

Is this bug still relevant? The View/Messages menuitems are now disabled for quick search or custom view.

I think what we have might be out of sync with the spec.

It was always out of sync with the spec :-P View/Message views are threaded views with special unread/ignored behaviour. The View dropdown does an unthreaded quicksearch.

will work on this in beta.

fixed (at least as current designed) with bug #189543

to elaborate on why this is fixed: now, if you switch threaded views (used to be View | Messages menu, but is now View | Threads), we'll set the view picker (and the selected item in the View | Messages menu) to be "all"). that change is part of bug #189543

Using trunk build 20030516 on winxp, macosx and linux this is fixed. The menu item View|Messages is synced with the View picker in the thread pane. As noted by Seth, if the user Selects View|Threads options, the View picker in thread pane changes to All.