1852221 - «mail.notification.count.inbox_only» no longer works

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Camaleon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0

Steps to reproduce:

I had set "mail.notification.count.inbox_only" property to TRUE but after updating to Nova it does not longer work.

Actual results:

• Using normal view pane
• The top folder of IMAP mailboxes display the total of unread messages count badge at the right, adding also the new messages arriving at SPAM folder which is undesired

Expected results:

• When "mail.notification.count.inbox_only" is set to TRUE, only new or unread messages coming from INBOX folder are counted and displayed in the badge

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Still an issue in Thunderbird 115.3 or later?

Comment 2

[Camaleon]

Yes, I still do experience the bug in TB 115.3.0.

Comment 3

[Camaleon]

The issue is still present in TB 128.11.0esr (see attached images).

Comment 4

[Camaleon]

Attachment: 20250609_inbox_shows_unread_messages_1.png

Comment 5

[Camaleon]

Attachment: 20250609_inbox_shows_unread_messages_2.png

Comment 6

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

The preference mail.notification.count.inbox_only does not control the message count badges in the folder tree. It never has. It controls whether the a new mail notification is shown when mail arrives in a folder that isn't the inbox.

Comment 7

[Camaleon]

Given the 2 images above, what I expect for this setting to do is when is set to YES, is SHOWING NO BADGE with the number of total unread messages (779) because there are not unread e-mails in the INBOX folder.