Minor mail bug

Michelle Steiner <michelle.DeleteThis@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-AF7C6D.12291003092009.DeleteThis@news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger.DeleteThis@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Why would you want to deselect all mailboxes?
> > >
> > > It just seems cleaner that way. I deselect all messages in a mailbox
> > > before leaving that mailbox, and I deselect all mailboxes after
> > > finishing a session.
> >
> > I suppose. More work though.
>
> Less than a second.
>
> > > Regardless of why one would want to do something, one way of doing
> > > that something has been broken for no apparent reason.
> >
> > It could be that few at Apple actually used that feature, I suppose.
>
> But they left in command-clicking to deselect a mailbox, and they left in
> clicking in the blank space below the message list to deselect messages.
> Besides, if it works, why go to the trouble of removing the code and
> testing to make sure the removal didn't break something else?

Source Lists can be set to prefer having a selection. You'll get this
behavior with that setting. It's them using newer Cocoa features and
fewer custom subclasses. This is a good thing for Mail...
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