221746 - Newsgroup posts or messages sent by me should be "read" by default, as soon as they are downloaded from NNTP server.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Database, enhancement)

Description

[David Grant]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030808
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030808

Newsgroup posts or messages sent by me should be "read" by default, as soon as
they are downloaded from NNTP server.  Sometimes I have zero unread messages in
a certain newsgroup, then I write a message to that newsgroup.  Later on, I
noticed there is 1 unread message in that newsgroup, so I open that newsgroup
and look to see who had answered my post.  I then realize that no one has
replied to my post, and that the unread post was the message I sent myself.  Why
is this classified as unread?  Doesn't the act of writing that message involve
reading it simultaneously?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a message in a newsgroup
2. Click on Send and Receive
3. Notice that your message has arrived in the newsgroup.
4. It is unread
5. Ask yourself, "why?"

Actual Results:  
The message that you just sent is unread.

Expected Results:  
The message that you just sent should be unread, just like when you send email
messages and they are set as "read" and moved to the Sent folder.

I hope this isn't a dupe, I couldn't find it by searching, and it was
challenging to think of keywords to search for this bug.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

I vote wontfix. I want all my messages marked unread, so that I can easily use
them to find threads I've participated in, and any responses to my own messages.

Comment 2

[David Grant]

I vote that there should be a preference for this.  Even if it was just a hidden
preference in prefs.js that would be fine.

Comment 3

[Adam Macznik]

Why don't you all setup a filter to your taste?
Voting wontfix.

>Doesn't the act of writing that message involve
>reading it simultaneously?

No. it doesn't.

When client checks for number of unread posts it *does not* download the
headers, so there's no way to be sure that this 1 new post was just sent by you.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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