Today when I looked at my inbox, the message that was highlighted in the message list was not the one that showed up in the lower pane.
I use kmail every day and I can confirm this bug.
*** Bug 290517 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have this bug too Usually it happens when you delete one or more messages. The following message is then displaced
The bug seems to be gone in 4.7.97 (RC2)
Unable to replicate with Kmail 4.10.5 on KDE 4.10.5
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present? If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.