Closed
Bug 59681
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Newsgroup incorrectly appears to have unread messages
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Database, defect, P3)
MailNews Core
Database
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: darin.moz, Assigned: Bienvenu)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
(Whiteboard: potential fix in hand - see bug 64476, attachment 38926)
Attachments
(1 file)
3.48 KB,
patch
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Details | Diff | Splinter Review |
Often a newsgroup will appear in the sidebar to have unread messages when in fact it does not. Sometimes closing and reopening the newsgroup sub-tree (ie. clicking on the triangle left of "news") will cause the newsgroup unread count to refresh to the proper value. In such cases, if I click on the newsgroup that previously showed an incorrect unread count, the same incorrect unread count will again appear. This happens despite the fact that none of the news messages are bold. Noticing this on Linux [build 2000-11-07-09-MN6].
Comment 2•24 years ago
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I have also observed this on NT SP6, so it is not just a Linux problem. Mozilla build 2000120504.
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Updated•24 years ago
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OS: Linux → All
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Comment 3•24 years ago
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Yeah.. I too have seen it on WinNT sp5. Marking OS:ALL.
Comment 4•24 years ago
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I see this regularly. If I'm in threaded mode, the top of the thread has the unread icon but all messages in the thread are clearly read. If I move to flat mode then I see no messages (set to only show unread messages). THis makes view Unread in threaded mode pretty broken especially when you have a dozen threads that claim they have unread items. posibly realted to bug 42361 or more likely bug 32369 reassigning to bienvenu@netscape.com for triage or duping.
Assignee: putterman → bienvenu
Severity: normal → major
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Comment 5•24 years ago
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I also noticed that marking all read in threaded mode does not clear the unread icon.
Comment 6•24 years ago
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I managed to fix this on my setup (Build 2001011204) by following a suggestion from Ben Bucksch on n.p.m.mail-news: <snip> - Delete .msf files in your profile </snip> After deleting all the .msf files in my profile, all my newsgroups and mail folders report the correct number of unread messages.
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Comment 7•24 years ago
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yes, the database and the newsrc file are out of sync - deleting the msf files will fix this. The problem is to figure out why they're getting out of sync.
Comment 8•24 years ago
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Well, I don't know if this helps, but I've had this problem ever since I first migrated my profile when N6 came out. I suspect migration may be the culprit.
Comment 9•24 years ago
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Never mind, the problem is back again, after 1 day of working correctly.
QA Contact: esther → stephend
Comment 10•24 years ago
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*** Bug 66747 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11•24 years ago
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I've been messing with this on and off for about a week and here's what I know (or think I know) so far. The reason unread counts in the sidebar change is due to moz using 3 different sources for those numbers as its state changes. On opening mail/news, the numbers come from panacea.dat in the profile. Since the server listing is open, moz fetches the highwater for each newsgroup and compares it to newsrc to get count #2. Finally, when you select a newsgroup, it fetches new headers and updates the count based on msf thread header counts. Interesting, it does this whether the newsgroup is displayed threaded or not. You'd expect the initial panacea numbers to change depending on how long it's been since you were in mail/news, but if they change when you select the newsgroup that's a problem. As mentioned above, deleting the msf file is the quickest workaround. As to how this happen, I'll describe two methods but they both involve msf updates and mailrc updates not being flushed to disk together. Method #1 - this happens more frequently, at least to me Open mail and read some messages in a newsgroup. If you switch to another folder, don't come back to the original. After a few minutes (5 minute cycle?) newsrc will flush to disk. Kill the mozilla process to simulate a crash. You now have threads showing more unread message than actually show as unread in the pane. If you mark a few unread, you can get an unread count higher that the total count. Imagine clicking N N N N N through all your message and going off into the browser and you crash an hour later. Grrrr... Method #2: Open a newsgroup and read some messages. Switch to another folder, then back to the original. The original folder flushes to disk when you come _into_ it again. Kill the process to simulate a crash. If you killed if before the newsrc cache timed out and flushed, you now have threads showing unread counts less that the number marked as unread. If you read (past tense) everything in the newsgroup it looks very strange because the sidebar says several messages unread until you select the newsgroup and it changes to zero unread and shows you a blank pane.
Blocks: messagecount
Comment 12•23 years ago
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It's not just a PC issue, either -- I'm experiencing the problem on Mac OS 9.1, build 2001040608 and have been experiencing the problem for months of builds. It seems that the correct message status is lost if Mozilla crashes during a session during which I've read messages. My workaround lately has been to immediately quit Mozilla right after I finish reading the new messages, then relaunch Mozilla to do any other surfing -- it's an inconvenient way to do things, but it works when I remember to do it. I'm only a second year computer science major, so I don't know if this is possible, but perhaps there might be some way to close the newsgroup files immediately when the Mail / News window is closed?
Comment 13•23 years ago
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Nominating to mozilla0.9 per Sebastian Fernandez request in npm.mail-news
Keywords: mozilla0.9
Updated•23 years ago
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Comment 14•23 years ago
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Should this bug be targeted to 0.9.1? 0.9.2? Do people consider this serious enough to block 1.0? I know it annoys me, but I'm not sure if anyone else is seeing it...
Comment 15•23 years ago
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Nominating for 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 (if 0.9.1 is too soon).
Keywords: mozilla0.9.1,
mozilla0.9.2
Comment 16•23 years ago
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I definitely agree that this should block version 1.0 at least.
Comment 17•23 years ago
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I believe this bug is a dup of #64476
Comment 18•23 years ago
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I would really like to see this bug resolved... I think it is a definite blocker for 1.0 I would prefer it was fixed in .9.2 It's very consistently reproducible. It happens to me across platforms, builds and completely new profiles. The synch is lost almost immediately on a fresh install with a new profile. While we've all dealt with worse bugs ; ) this is definetly visible and obvious to even casual news users.
*** Bug 76166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20•23 years ago
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Actually, both the number of unread messages and the total number of messages would be wrong if .msf is stale. Crossposted with bug #64476: I was looking at what is happening in nsMsgNewsFolder and I observed the following: 1) nsMsgNewsFolder::UpdateSummaryFromNNTPInfo would set mNumUnreadMessages and mNumTotalMessages to correct values. 2) nsMsgNewsFolder::UpdateSummaryTotals would call ReadDBFolderInfo that would reset both of them to stale values. On biff only (1) would happen, so the values would be correct (untill I try to read the group, which will cause (1) and (2)).
Comment 21•23 years ago
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I am starting to get an idea where things get unsynchronized. IMHO the problem lies in nsNewsDatabase implementation. Namely, it keeps a field m_readSet (of type nsMsgKeySet *) and uses it to keep the information on whether a message is read or not. However the global and thread read/unread counts are handled by an underlying nsMsgDatabase which has its own idea of read/unread flags. Although one can try to synchronize neswrc (which is used to produce m_readSet with .msf (that is used by nsMsgDatabase) outside of nsNewsDatabase, IMHO the best way to ensure that things never get unsynched is to keep them synched in the nsNewsDatabase itself. Because of that I beleieve that the best place for sync code would be in nsNewsDatabase::SetReadSetStr - whenever some "outsider" changes the ReadSet we should immediatelly propagate all changes to the underlying nsMsgDatabase. P.S. Currently, nsNewsDatabase::SetReadSetStr does not have any synch code in it.
Component: Mail Window Front End → Mail Database
Comment 22•23 years ago
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Comment 23•23 years ago
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I wrote some synchronization code that updated the DB based on the newsrc information. I still need to write some code to synch thread counters (for bug 64476), but current patch already fixes this particular bug. Comments, reviews?
Comment 24•23 years ago
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I attached an updated patch - see bug 64476, attachment 38926 [details] [diff] [review].
Comment 25•23 years ago
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*** Bug 89763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•23 years ago
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Whiteboard: potential fix in hand → potential fix in hand - see see bug 64476, attachment 38926
Comment 26•23 years ago
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*** Bug 90810 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•23 years ago
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Whiteboard: potential fix in hand - see see bug 64476, attachment 38926 → potential fix in hand - see bug 64476, attachment 38926
Comment 27•23 years ago
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*** Bug 80806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 28•23 years ago
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*** Bug 83855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 29•23 years ago
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*** Bug 91187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 30•23 years ago
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Text from bug 91187: Using Ctrl-Shift-C to mark all messages in a newsgroup as read clears the count of total messages in the "mail folders" pane and changes all message headers to non-bold. However, many message topics in the message list pane still show a non-zero count in the "unread" column. This means that, when you return to the newsgroup a few days later, you cannot easily distinguish which message threads are actually new and unread. I believe this report is slightly different than the meat of this bug. It is not the count of unread messages in a newsgroup that is wrong in this case, it is the count of unread messages in a thread. However, it may have the same root cause.
Comment 31•23 years ago
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Dave: work is going on on that issue (thread "looks" unread), see bug 64476. FYI, a partial fix went in just today for that one.
Comment 32•23 years ago
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Yes, bug 91187 is a duplicate of bug 64476, not of this one.
I've corrected bug 91187 to be a DUP of 64476, sorry about that (too quick to verify the wrong bug).
*** Bug 87066 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 91660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•23 years ago
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Keywords: mozilla0.9.3 → mozilla0.9.4
Comment 36•23 years ago
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This bug has definatly got my vote! I'm using build 2001090408 on Windows 2000. I just read my unread newsgroup message, then when I click the folders I get (usually, if I have read all messages in that folder) 1 unread and some weird number for the total (always <= real total). The numbers are then all corrected when Moz does it's 'check for new messages'.
Comment 37•23 years ago
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I found out something that might be related to this (using build 2001091303): On some of my newsgroups Mozilla insists there are unread messages when it automatically updates the message counts, but if I go to the group there turn out to be no new messages at all. However, after looking at the .rc file for the news server (while Mozilla wasn't running, of course), I decided to 'concatinate' the messages numbers in the file. By this I mean that some groups had lots of different message ID ranges (e.g. 1-256,258-476,496-720), which I replaced with just one range (e.g. 1-720). Now Mozilla does not seems to get the 'phantom' unread messages. I suspect, but can't prove, that the number of phantom unread messages was equal to the number of message IDs not included in the ranges.
*** Bug 99963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•23 years ago
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*** Bug 108245 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 40•23 years ago
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I haven't seen this bug in a while. Can anyone else out there with a fresh profile still reproduce it?
Comment 41•23 years ago
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I'm using Moz 0.9.5 and I still get it, although not as regularly as I used to.
*** Bug 122679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 43•23 years ago
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It seems that the autoupdate ("check for new messages") processes the count properly mostly, but it goes wrong when one actually selects the group for reading (?)
Comment 44•23 years ago
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using 2002020803 I looked into Additional Comment #37 From James Ross 2001-09-20 05:50 This latest code seems to clean up the ranges, if a newsgroup is fully read, than it mostly seems to contain one range (1-max). I did see one newsgroup (fully read) with multiple ranges (could be attributed to cancels?), and I made it into only one range. When the server is opened in the newsreader (and autoupdated), the count is correctly zero, and it changes to unread count when the newsgroup is selected for reading (altough no messages are displayed).
Comment 45•23 years ago
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I'm using 2002021915, and this issue has bugged me since I started using Mozilla for MailNews. Could we get this for 0.9.9 ?
Updated•23 years ago
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Keywords: mozilla0.9.9
*** Bug 126302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 128005 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 48•22 years ago
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I do not know if changes were made for this, but it seems that lately using "Mark Newsgroup Read" seems to set the unread messages correctly to 0 and it stays 0 for a while.
Comment 49•22 years ago
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I agree. Using "Mark newsgroup as read" fixes the bad counts. (It didn't used to before). But this is still only a workaround. The real problem still needs to be solved.
Comment 50•22 years ago
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Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002031005 (0.9.9). Setting Platform=All.
Hardware: PC → All
Updated•22 years ago
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Keywords: mozilla0.9.7,
mozilla0.9.9
Comment 51•22 years ago
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*** Bug 136859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 52•22 years ago
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*** Bug 143628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 53•22 years ago
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*** Bug 147441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 54•22 years ago
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A sync patch was checked in in bug 64476 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64476 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified dup.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Comment 56•22 years ago
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Unfortunatelly, there still appear to be some scenarious when unread counts start to mismatch - often (some) cancelled messages would be counted as unread in newsrc, but not counted in db! Should I file a new bug or reopen this one?
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Comment 57•22 years ago
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Neither, please use bug 79130
Comment 58•22 years ago
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This also happens for new messages in ignored threads, which is not bug 79130. Annoying. pi
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Comment 59•22 years ago
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see bug 147110 for the ignored threads issue.
Comment 60•22 years ago
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Bug 147110 is the opposite. I claim that unread messages are counted for the group where they actually are in ignored threads. pi
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Comment 61•22 years ago
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It seems more likely that one of you is wrong - I doubt that both could be true.
Comment 62•22 years ago
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On Mozilla 2002051319, it looks as if unread messages are counted for the group when they actually are in ignored threads, at least on my computer.
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Comment 63•22 years ago
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katil, as comment #59 said, see bug 147110 for the ignored threads issue.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 64•22 years ago
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*** Bug 166583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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