1754603 - Renaming folder causes its subfolders to lose new message indicator

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1899087

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Barry Abel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a folder named ABCDE.
2. Create a subfolder of that folder.
3. Create a message filter that will move messages with the subject Testing 123 to the subfolder.
4. Send a message to oneself with the subject Testing 123.
5. Get Messages - when the message arrives, the subfolder's name will change color to blue.
6. Rename folder ABCDE to ABCD - the folder will close.
7. Reopen the folder - the subfolder is no longer blue.
8. Rename folder ABCD to ABCDE - the subfolder is blue again.

Actual results:

See above.

Expected results:

The color of the subfolder should be unaffected by renaming its parent folder.

Comment 1

[Barry Abel]

I neglected to include the following step:
2.5. Open folder ABCDE to see the subfolder.

Also, step 8 should be:
Rename folder ABCD to ABCDE, then reopen the folder - the subfolder is blue again.

And finally, the reproduction can be continued for more buggy behavior:
9. Move the mouse over the subfolder (and, if necessary, move it off and back onto the subfolder) - the subfolder's color changes back to black.

Comment 2

[Barry Abel]

Possibly related to 1754618?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Barry Abel from comment #0)

The color of the subfolder should be unaffected by renaming its parent folder.

Ideally. Does this reproduce with version 115?

FWIW, I found (at least for me) that I can force new message indicators back on by doing search (ctrl+shift+k) across an account's entire folder hierarchy.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Soeren, does this reproduce for you?

Comment 5

[Barry Abel]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)

(In reply to Barry Abel from comment #0)

The color of the subfolder should be unaffected by renaming its parent folder.

Ideally. Does this reproduce with version 115?

FWIW, I found (at least for me) that I can force new message indicators back on by doing search (ctrl+shift+k) across an account's entire folder hierarchy.

The problem still exists in 115.8.0 (64-bit), but the color doesn't go back to blue when changing the parent folder back to its original name.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Barry does this also reproduce for you with 128?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This may be essentially the same as bug 1899087