When I open Mail, either by mozilla.exe -mail, by CTRL+2, clicking the toolbar, or anywhere else, I should be directed to my mail box, not that "Mozilla Mail" screen.

>directed to my mail box read, "the Inbox Folder" Marking 4xp. Marcos.

> that "Mozilla Mail" screen read, Account Central. Marcos.

So check "Check for New Mail at Startup".

Wouldn't that just be a work around? What if I don't want to "check email at startup"? What if my pop server is too slow, and I don't want to waste trips to this server, but just actually check it once, and retrieve it all? However, I may want to start up mail many times, and read few emails at a time, or past emails. Like when we deal with bugs mailed from bugzilla, we may deal with some at one time, the with some other another time. Also, this is not a valid solution to this problem, because I'm checking the option "check new mail at startup", and not "go to my inbox at startup". These are different things. Marcos.

Markin NEW.

I prefer the way things work now. I have several mail accounts in my profile, and the opening screen lets me choose which inbox to open. It would probably be preferable to go directly to the inbox if there is only one account set up.

as far as i can tell, this works in 1.0rc1

Perhaps there could be a control in the preferences to select any one item from the tree in the left hand pane on the main screen, to start up in - then you could start in a particular folder, Account Central for an account, or even a newsgroup if desired.

Whereas the behaviour described as a bug in comment 0 is accurate (contradicting my comment 7 -- sorry about that), I believe that what you describe is not a bug. Furthermore, as there is a very straightforward workaround (see comment 3), I don't believe that fixing this issue merits the UI clutter and complexity that it would entail.

Karsten, wontfix? (or enh)