Closed Bug 181919 Opened 23 years ago Closed 17 years ago

When opening Mail, summary of inbox rebuilds itself and mark all messages as new

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: sancho, Assigned: Bienvenu)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Sometimes, have no detailed explanation when, when I start mail, I get rebuilding summary of Inbox. When this finish, I get almost all 832 messages marked as new, sorting of messages is wrong (by date descending) and few (mostly last day messages) are marked as they should. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Mail 2. Click on Inbox in first account 3. Actual Results: Most of old messages are marked as new. Expected Results: Leave the read status...
QA Contact: gayatri → esther
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
This bug is still there in Mozilla 1.3b on Linux.
did you import your messages from another mail client? My guess is that they have no x-mozilla-status lines. I'm not sure why your summary file gets rebuilt. What kind of file system are you using? networked or local? How often does this happen?
Yes, I imported my Outlook Express mail when I switched to Mozilla Mail. The messages marked unread when the summary file is rebuilt are my imported messages. Also, I share my message folder between Windows 2000 and Linux on a local FAT32 partition.
On Linux i get this bug even though i've never imported mail from another client. I have always used Mozilla mail. I have had this problem with recent build of the last couple months, i think, and i still get it with the 1.4 build from 2003-06-24. Could we change platform on this bug to "all"?
By the way, the behavior i get is slightly different than that of the reporter. For me, the summary rebuilds and the sort order is wrong, but i don't get messages being remarked as new.
This sounds as if it's a duplicate of bug 207038. Try the fix described in 207038. If it works, then mark as duplicate of 207038.
Product: MailNews → Core
could very well be that dupe, unfortunately no one responded circa that time period. => WFM. I haven't seen this in v1.5, 2.0 or trunk.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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