180244 - On startup, biff indicates wrong (and increasing) number of messages in INBOX

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Gail Gurman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

I use an IMAP server and I leave messages in my INBOX after reading them. Ever
since I installed Mozilla 1.2b, it has continued to add to the number of new
messages each time it starts. So, even if there is no new mail, it will say that
there is (currently over 100). If there is new mail, the appropriate messages
are properly highlighted, however.

Because of the turbo bug, this means that every time I close all windows, the
next time I open Mail, it will count all those messages again. This did not
happen in version 1.0.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start MailNews.
2. Close MailNews.
3. Start MailNews again.

Actual Results:  
"gail has 133 new messages"

Expected Results:  
Nothing (there was no new mail)

Comment 1

[Gail Gurman]

Sorry. This is a duplicate of 152650. I forgot I'd submitted that one. :(

Anyway, this one has more information.

Comment 2

[Gail Gurman]

I'm now using the following build and described behavior still happens:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021120

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

*** Bug 152650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Gail Gurman]

I think I figured out what's going on here. The "hidden" message--the one with
the subject "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"--doesn't get
moved to the end of the mail folder. (Forgive me if this is a "no, duh"
conclusion, but it didn't occur to me before, so maybe it didn't occur to you
either.)

The problem doesn't seem to be happening to me anymore, though I am experiencing
another, probably unrelated, problem. So, I took a look at my inbox vi ELM on my
shell account, and noticed that the abovementioned hidden message was at the end. 

I'm guessing that it was trapped somewhere in some misformed message that I
probably moved to a separate folder the other day. (I did a little
housekeeping.) Once it was freed, it could be properly rewritten at the end of
the file.

(I will file a bug on my other problem and post a comment about it here, just in
case it is related somehow.)

Comment 5

[Gail Gurman]

The other bug I mentioned is not related. It appears to be a JavaScript problem.

Comment 6

[Ian Neal]

Dupe of bug 138631 ?

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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