187149 - when using junk mail controls, cursor remains as hourglass for sub-folders of IMAP mailbox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ken Roser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

I use an IMAP email provider (fastmail.fm).  Since enabling junk mail control,
when accessing subfolders of my main mailbox, the mouse cursor becomes an
hourglass and remains so until I return to the main Inbox.  When in this state I
also noticed that some messages won't display in the message display window. 
When turning off junk mail control, this problem goes away.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See details

Actual Results:  
See details

Expected Results:  
The mouse cursor should not have been an hourglass

Please contact me for any additional information or to perform any additional
testing to isolate the problem.

Comment 1

[laurel]

Yes, this is a known problem, will have to find the exact bug report covering
this. Basically, junk mail processing has not finished at the point you
described... we need a better and more blatant feedback mechanism for the user
to let them know when junk mail is processing and done.

Comment 2

[laurel]

general bug covering some progress issues, etc. -- see bug 179162.

Comment 3

[JT Moree]

It would be nice if there were an option:
Do NOT scan junk mail in subfolders of the inbox.  How about an option called
JunkMailSubFolders = true/false or something like that?  I have server side SPAM
controls and I cannot use the Mozilla option for moving junk mail because It
moves all of the mail that the server already moved in addition to the mail the
server missed.

All of my folders are in my inbox but someone else might have a similar problem
with folders outside of the inbox.  perhaps a better solution would be to have a
list of folders that will be scanned for junk mail.  By default the option would
be off?   That way all folders would be scanned.  If I want to limit the scans
to my inbox, then I simply turn on the feature and put inbox in the list.  There
would also need to be an IncludeSubfolders option for each entry in this list.  

Yeah Yeah, I know. If i want to implement it....  just throwing around some ideas.

Comment 4

[JT Moree]

What if you want some subfolders scanned and others not scanned?  oooh.  in my
case, i dont have a choice to put folders outside of inbox as non subfolders.  

Also, this may not help the original poster's problem if he does want all of his
subfolders scanned.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

from reporter: "the problem I described in the bug report hasn't existed for years now."