Closed
Bug 370234
Opened 17 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
Count of unread news posts is very often wrong
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: wa1ter, Assigned: mscott)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a3pre) Gecko/20070212 Minefield/3.0a3pre Build Identifier: trunk (very old bug) (Note: this applies only to newsgroups, not to mail.) When I click on the twisty for a news server (to display all of my subscribed groups) I can see the 'unread article' count update as I watch. The problem is that these updated counts are very often (but not always) wildly wrong. Then, when I click on a group to read it, I can see the counts update a second time, this time correctly. Alas, whenever the original count turns out to be wrong, any article I select refuses to appear in the preview window. I can see from watching my network traffic that no bytes at all are sent to the news server, so it's no surprise that the server doesn't send the selected article. I can correct this situation by double-clicking an article, which opens in a separate window as expected. Then I can go back to the header pane and all works properly after that. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. This bug appeared in Thunderbird trunk many moons ago. I didn't report it back then because I figured that someone would fix it soon since it's such an obvious and annoying problem. I'd be surprised if this isn't a duplicate, but I looked and didn't see anything similar.
Comment 1•17 years ago
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Same here in Trunk for 3.0. Adds one to messages count every 30 seconds or so.
Flags: blocking-thunderbird3?
Comment 2•17 years ago
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(In reply to comment #1) > Same here in Trunk for 3.0. > Adds one to messages count every 30 seconds or so. > Note that this happens for my global inbox.
Comment 3•17 years ago
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I've seen this since the early NS 7 suite days. The .rc file for news servers is not always correctly updated, so inaccurate lists of read/unread messages are displayed. The folder pane will report X unread messages for a group, but no unread messages actually exist when you select the group to read. It will not affect all newsgroups on a server. Most will be correct, and one or two will have sticky wrong info, as though that line in the .rc file was being skipped. I believe this only bites if you do everything online, downloading only headers, then downloading actual message bodies as you read them. If you maintain a local message store for offline use, I believe the counts in the .rc file will be accurate.
Comment 4•17 years ago
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Summary looks to say same phenomenon as Bug 160963(and DUP bugs of it) which was closed as DUP of old(before Mozilla 1.0) Bug 79130.
Comment 5•17 years ago
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Duping to Bug 79130
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•16 years ago
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Flags: blocking-thunderbird3?
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