HTML mail confirmation dialog list needs a scrollable widget

[Stephen Toney]

We have a mailing list of about 300 clients. I added all their names to the BCC field of an email and sent it. I got a dialog box that extended beyond the top and bottom of my display, showing some of the addresses I was sending to, each on one line. There was no way to scroll this box, so I don't know what it was trying to tell me. I could see no message, button or other control except the addresses.

Later testing with fewer names showed me that this dialog is asking me to confirm whether the addressees can all receive HTML mail. However, it's broken if there are so many addressees that the dialog is higher than the screen.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425434

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What version of Ubuntu do you use?

[Stephen Toney (toney)]

6.06 -- Drake.

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 10:17 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> What version of Ubuntu do you use?
>
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Stephen Toney
Systems Planning
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http://www.systemsplanning.com

[JM Williams (jmdwilliams)]

A couple of workarounds from bug 242231:
Add [a second row of] workspaces or remove the acceptance dialog in the preferences

Also, if you do *not* have Visual Effects enabled, you *can* Alt-drag the dialog beyond the top of the screen (at least, it works for me). So, running “metacity --replace” is a quick way of enabling moving the dialog, with the expense of losing effects till next login (or compiz is restarted).

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2007 - version not longer supported
change status to invalid