289454 - Group-by Sort headers are targets for "next message"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Ray Trent]

When a new message arrives, it gets sorted into one of the group-by sections
(e.g. "Today". If you are in, for example, "Yesterday" and you hit "N",
Thunderbird uselessly advances to the group label, not showing any new message.
A second "N" causes an advance to the desired message.

Thunderbird build: 20050315

Expected result: TB should advance to the next actual new message and display it
without stopping at the label.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Ray Trent, I'm unable to reproduce this problem with TB 1.5.0.2 or later 
builds.  Are you still seeing the symptom?  If not, please mark this bug:
  Resolved | WorksForMe

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

this happens to me with a 2.0a build when I'm grouped by date - I think it has always been this way.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

make sure we think the dummy header has the "read" flag set.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Here's one way of reproducing this:

1. Group by date, so that today's messages are at the top.
2. Mark all the messages from yesterday as unread
3. Select the last message in today.
4. Do next unread

That will take you to the dummy header for yesterday. The key to reproducing this is that the dummy header was getting its read state from the *first* message in the yesterday group, which is most likely to be the oldest message from yesterday, *not* the first message in the yesterday group. Hope that make sense.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed on trunk; I'll get it into 2.0 when the tree is open...

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 222935 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

putting on 2.0 radar