Hi,

being keyboard person as well (still using 5250 a lot) I have spotted this problem too. Alt-TAB to another application and than back to Notes sometimes is causing opened email message to get closed. And I think 50% mentioned above is just about right.

regards

Robert

1.  I have only noticed it occur on Internet emails.  The majority of emails I work with are external - especially ones I would be switching between Notes and our internal system to cut & paste data between.

2.  I keep my my mailbox from newest (top) to oldest (bottom).  It will open the next message down - regardless of read or unread status.  I have had times where after it "does that" I will go back to the original message, switch out, switch back, and it takes me to the same "next" message.

3.  I suspect and can somewhat reproduce the issue by releasing alt first.  It seems as if TAB is set up to go to the next message as is happening.  I'm not sure if this is a new functionality in 9 or was there in 8x and prior and not as "sensitive" - or at least I never had it occur on a prior version.  I don't have any prior versions to test on at this point.

Thanks

Nick

I'm having exactly the same issue as the original poster..........so glad I'm not the only one. 

This is very frustrating as I use the task switcher (alt + tab) all of the time.   I too had noted that for 'internal emails' it was not having an issue, but for 'external emails' it was happening - and I would say atleast 75% of the time it was happening.

In regard to the release of the Tab or the Alt key first......I've found that you have to release the Tab key first anyway for the switcher to work.......so was unable to recreate the use of releasing the Alt key first.

This issue was definately not happening in prior versions of Lotus Notes - we've been on notes since around 2005 or prior and I've never had this issue before.

I hope IBM can come up with a solution to this soon as it's very very frustrating

Version 9.0.1 installed and....... Alt-Tab issue is still there. Brilliant! (not).

regards

Robert

Robert,

Yes  I too am STILL having this issue.........is anyone at IBM looking at this?

In Notes Preferences, enable 'Use Tab to navigate Read-Only Documents' option

Any resolution to this yet?

This is really driving me nuts, ever since I upgraded to Notes 9 Social Edition.

I am easily able to reproduce the symptom.

 While inside an email, simply hitting tab, closes the currently open email, and opens the next unread email.

How do I disable this functionality entirely, as it is interfering with my alt-tab abilities.

It's so a pain losing your unread emails because of this, anyone know how to avoid it?

Same still on 9.0.1 very frustrating

SPR# AJAN9657JM - Fixes a navigation issue that would highlight a different inbox mail message switching between Notes and another application using ALT-Tab.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/fixlist.nsf/5c087391999d06e7852569280062619d/58fae41ad354435f85257cda00581183?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,AJAN9657JM

http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

SPR# AJAN9657JM - Fixes a navigation issue that would highlight a different inbox mail message switching between Notes and another application using ALT-Tab.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/fixlist.nsf/5c087391999d06e7852569280062619d/58fae41ad354435f85257cda00581183?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,AJAN9657JM

http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Dear Richard,

I am afraid, I do not see any relevant content in the links you have provided. And, here let me join the club of victims of this 'alt-tab' mail close issue.  Wish there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks, Mukunthan.

I have the same issue... it seems We will have always to release the tab key before the alt key. 

Try :  Preferences -> basic Notes client configuration -> Additional options (box) -> 'Use Tab to navigate Read-Only Documents' option

Worked for me..

This solved for me:

In Notes Preferences, enable 'Use Tab to navigate Read-Only Documents' option

Thanks Edwin Gerolaga. Your suggestion worked.