1847401 - unified folders does not show subfolders of IMAP Inbox and other folders anywhere. And other manifestations

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect, P1)

Description

[Jeffrey Kaplan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Steps to reproduce:

Manually updated to 115 on a Win10 Home PC.
When in Unified view of the accounts/folders list, my IMAP account does not show the subfolders of Inbox, only the top-level folders of Inbox, Trash, Junk, etc.

Additionally, Unified Junk is not showing two of my three GMail account junk folders.

When I switch to All Folders and turn OFF Unified, I can see all my folders in my IMAP and three GMail accounts.

On request, more info can be provided. Logs, etc, I may need instruction on how to get.

Actual results:

See above

Expected results:

Unified Folders should show all subfolders like 102 and older does, top level as Unified and then everything else in the account specific groupings.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

When in Unified view of the accounts/folders list, my IMAP account does not show the subfolders of Inbox, only the top-level folders of Inbox, Trash, Junk, etc.

Who is the mail provider of that account that is not showing subfolders?

Additionally, Unified Junk is not showing two of my three GMail account junk folders.

Are you still seeing this with 115.2 ?

Comment 2

[Jeffrey Kaplan]

IMAP provider is pair.com, server address is gordol.mail.pairserver.com

I have reverted to 102 and do not intend to re-update until forced, unless I find a replacement mail client before that. Also, I moved the Inbox subfolders to top level.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Unified Folders should show all subfolders like 102 and older does, top level as Unified and then everything else in the account specific groupings.

To be clear, in 102 your experience is all messages of all Inbox subfolders is shown in the Unified Inbox, correct?

Comment 4

[Jeffrey Kaplan]

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

To be clear, in 102 your experience is all messages of all Inbox subfolders is shown in the Unified Inbox, correct?

No. In 102, "Unified Inbox" shows the Inbox itself as a Unified item, and its subfolders in the account-specific listing.

115 was not showing the subfolders at all.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

A list https://mzl.la/44NynPc

Comment 6

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

I can at least confirm this is a bug. The folders should be shown somewhere if you've chosen not to display them inside the inbox (which is where they should be, by default, and you can change by going to the properties of the top-level unified inbox folder).

Comment 7

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1847401 - Display un-searched folders that are descendants of searched folders. r=freaktechnik

If the user wants the unified inbox to not search subfolders, they should still be displayed in the folder tree.

Comment 8

[Jeffrey Kaplan]

(In reply to Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan) from comment #7)

Created attachment 9352417 [details]
Bug 1847401 - Display un-searched folders that are descendants of searched folders. r=#thunderbird-front-end-reviewers

If the user wants the unified inbox to not search subfolders, they should still be displayed in the folder tree.

Issue isn't search/not search. Issue is the Inbox subfolders are not shown in 115 at all when "unified" is the selected layout. Inbox subfolders only show when "Unified" is not the selected layout view. All folders are "subscribed". The only way to have all folders visible in Unified is to move them out from the Inbox and into their own top level folder. They can be subfolders from there and show.

Comment 9

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

It is the issue though. If subfolders of your inbox were included in the search, they would be displayed in the unified section of the folder tree, as subfolders of the inbox. If they're not included in the search, they should be shown below (but they're not, which is what I've attempted to fix).

(Subfolders were not included in the search by default until 115, but you can now choose whether or not they're included in the search by opening the properties of the unified inbox.)

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/13e7dac991b1
Display un-searched folders that are descendants of searched folders. r=freaktechnik

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9352417 [details]
Bug 1847401 - Display un-searched folders that are descendants of searched folders. r=freaktechnik

[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta

Comment 12

[Daniel Darnell [:dandarnell]]

Thunderbird 118.0b5:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/a8cf87af8d34

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9352417 [details]
Bug 1847401 - Display un-searched folders that are descendants of searched folders. r=freaktechnik

[Triage Comment]
Approved for esr115 - although we haven't been adequate on beta, this has a test. If the patch borks beta then we still have time to adjust the 115 build

Comment 14

[Daniel Darnell [:dandarnell]]

Thunderbird 115.2.3:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr115/rev/9e3e93b547f1