258916 - Threads marked as read status return to unread when collapsed/expanded.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Build ID: 2004-09-11-05, Windows XP Seamonkey trunk, but I'm assuming this
affects Thunderbird trunk as well, and possibly Aviary branch as well, I need to
check on that.

Summary: Threads marked as read status return to unread when collapsed/expanded.

NOTE: I'm not sure when this was regressed, but I noticed that it happened even
before Neil landed his two patches for bug 93426 and bug 112833.

Steps to Reproduce:

1.  Open news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
2.  Go to the thread entitled "named scope" begun on 8/20/2004 (message ID is
news://news.mozilla.org:119/[e-mail])
3.  Read all the messages in the thread.
4.  Collapse the thread.
5.  Expand the thread.

Expected Results:

Thread stays at 'read' status, all messages are unbolded.

Actual Results:

All messages in the thread return to 'unread' status and become bolded once again.

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Screenshot with another anomaly.

Another weird behavior noticed:  We still display the green 'unread thread'
down arrow icon when the thread is at all read status.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

I don't see this in my Linux build; I'll try updating my MinGW build tonight.

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Neil, did you try with the specific newsgroup?  I tried using news.verizon.net
and a different newsgroup, but couldn't reproduce, however I can always
reproduce using n.p.m.jseng on news.mozilla.org ;-(

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Maybe your netscape.public.mozilla.jseng.msf file is corrupt?

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Okay, yeah, interesting.  There's something funky going on here.

I just tried this with the 2004-09-16-05 build on my other machine, the laptop,
and it works fine.

I'm now wondering if it has something to do with bug 256536...

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Could this bug be related to the issue of showing newsgroups with unread 
messages that are not visible because they've been cancelled (bug 160963)?

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref TB bug 218994 -- that was filed under TB 0.2, which makes me wonder how 
recent this alleged "regression" might be.

Comment 8

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I don't know how my profile got into this state, but I can no longer reproduce this.

marking wfm with build 2004-10-05-04, Windows XP seamonkey trunk.