16920 - [FEATURE] Watch Thread

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[laurel]

This bug is to track implementation of Watch Thread.

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

Reassign to putterman, cc bienvenu. Not a B1 feature, so TFV M15

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Shouldn't this be in beta3?

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.  This feature won't be in.

Comment 4

[laurel]

logged bug to remove Watch Thread from the message filter ui: bug #44174.

Comment 5

[Peter Lairo]

please move this bug to a much sooner target milestone (suggest 0.6 or 0.8 latest).

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz]

*** Bug 61718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Peter Lairo]

Please include these two features soon:

- message filters that mark thread or message as watched
- view - messages - watched threads (don't include unread, or make option)

Comment 8

[Peter Lairo]

This bug has been quiet for sometime. Is anybody working on it yet? This seems
like a "low cost - high return" type of feature. Please mark it for a sooner
milestone. Thank You.

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

There are no plans that I know of to work on this in the near future. I'm adding
the helpwanted keyword so that someone who wants to work on mailnews and wants
to implement this feature knows that it exists.

Comment 10

[Peter Lairo]

OK, if this bug is deemed unimportant, then maybe i am just not understanding
something right about newsgroups.

When I post a reply to another's post (somewhere DEEP inside a newsgroup). And I
then want to see if there is a reply to my comment, how do I relocate that
thread? Assuming that messages are "threaded" (which is very common). Sorting by
name and scrolling through large groups (asside from being tedious) would not
yield my name since it is burried in a thread. Flagging my post will also not
work for the same reason.

It seems to me that marking posts as "WATCHED" and then selecting
"View-Messaged-Watched Messages (unread)"is the only way to effectively track my
posts (or any post of interest).

If i am wrong, and if there is a better way, please let me know.

I apologize for posting this here, but if there is no good way to monitor news
posts, then this serves as a relevant argument for implementing this feature.

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

I agree with you about the importance of watch thread for newsgroups. However,
you can use flag and the go next flagged command to find your flagged messages,
and hence the threads with your posts.

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

I didn't say this was unimportant just that the resources to work on this don't
currently exist.

Comment 13

[Luke Morey]

I've just voted for this bug - I think it's needed to beat Outlook Express
(which has it).  I also make heavy use of the "ignore thread" feature of OE, to
take out spam &c.

Comment 14

[Jacek Piskozub]

This bug should clearly be marked 4xp as this is a Netscape 4.* feature.

The lack of this feature makes it hard to read newsgroup with many active
threads with Mozilla.

Comment 15

[David :Bienvenu]

well, then, you'll be happy to know this will be fixed when the performance
branch lands in about 10 days.

Comment 16

[David :Bienvenu]

this is fixed - there's no special icon for watched threads, but that's a
separate bug.

Comment 17

[Peter Lairo]

i can't find it anywhere in the latest build (2001-03-16). When will it land in
a nightly? Will it be selectable in "Message Filters" or where?

Comment 18

[fenella]

Cannot verify this until bug 72279 is fixed.

Comment 19

[fenella]

Linux (2001-03-26-05-mtrunk)
Win32 (2001-03-26-09-mtrunk)
Mac (2001-03-26-12-mtrunk)
Per Laurel's guidance, I am able to verify this bug.
Thanks Laurel.
Here is the Steps:
1. Select Message->Watch Thread
2. View->Messages ->Watched Thread with Unread