190143 - New mail doesn't show up in list if "Sort by Junk Status" selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181143

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Dan Kegel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.3 alpha

Maybe I'm confused, but it seems as if new mail
doesn't show up if I have "Sort by Junk Status"
turned on.  I have to click another folder,
then click Inbox to see the new mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Sort Inbox by Junk status
2. Get Mail.  Watch Inbox count climb, but nothing showing up in list
3. Click some other folder
4. Click Inbox.  See new mail listed.

Actual Results:  
Sure enough, the new message didn't appear in the list
until I did the click-on-some-other-folder dance.

Expected Results:  
Show the mail in the list.

Comment 1

[Dan Kegel]

2nd workaround: after email received, it can be made
visible by choosing some other sort.  Even if you
then return to "sort by junk status", the mail
remains visible.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Dan Kegel, are you still seeing this problem?  I was unable to duplicate with a 
recent nightly:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030408

Comment 3

[Dan Kegel]

I am still seeing it in 1.3 release.  Haven't tried a nightly,
I'll try to check a nightly build this weekend.

Comment 4

[Dan Kegel]

Still present in 1.4rc1.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This could be a Linux-only bug, I suppose.  In Win2K, I find that the message 
does show up, visible, in the window, but the actual order of the messages is 
fairly indeterminate and the new message appears in the middle of the list, 
rather than at the end.

Comment 6

[Dan Kegel]

There are three issues, and the worst of the three is gone.  The issues were:
1. inbox count didn't increment - this is definitely fixed, if it was ever broken.
2. new messages don't show up - they do, just in random places.  This is
a usability problem which is only severe for people with large inboxes.
3. if you junk a message and then sort by junk status, it ignors the new
junk status when sorting.  Switching to another folder and back fixes the
sort order.

I think that last issue is the last trace of this bug that really needs
fixing.  The 2nd issue is an RFE.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

OK, I tried that 'sort by junk' issue.  Here's what I find:
With the mail sorted by date (and junk-autodeletion turned off), mark some 
messages as junk.  Sort by junk, the new messages all collect at the bottom.

Now mark another as junk:  it stays put in the sort order.  Click the junk 
column header again (which reverses the order of the current, as-junk sort).  
The mail still remains in the same relative position, but all the messages are 
reversed.  Sort by date, then by junk: all the junk ends up collected at 
whichever end is appopriate.

Compare this to sort-by-flag:  With sort-by-flag on, a new message that is 
flagged by a filter is located in the correct location with the other flagged 
messages.  Setting the flag manually on a message in the list does not move it, 
but when the flag column is clicked, the messages are re-ordered to cluster the 
flags at one end or another.

Tested this with
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030527

Confirming.  This would be items 2 and 3 in your list, Dan; Junk flag should 
work exactly as user flag in this regard.

Comment 8

[Dan Kegel]

I emptied my Inbox, and am now having trouble reproducing
issue #3.  I'll try reproducing again once it's a bit fuller.

Comment 9

[Dan Kegel]

The last thing that had been annoying me was that I needed too many
mouseclicks to get rid of messages manually marked as spam.
(This is why I'd been sorting by spam status.)
Now that there's a "Run filters on folder" command, that's the
quickest way to get rid of those messages.

So I'm satisfied that this bug is no longer an issue for me,
even though there might still be some quirks left.

Comment 10

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Fixing resolution

Comment 11

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Dan, please don't use "fixed" unless a patch is checked in specifically for this 
bug.  I'll mark this as WorksForMe, since you're satisfied, but I do think that 
sort-by-junk should work identically to sort-by-flag or other on/off criteria.

Comment 12

[Dan Kegel]

D'oh!  Sorry about the wrong resolution!

I have a feeling this bug is getting muddled, though,
and could use a clearer restatement.  I think if
I were to read this bug report for the first time,
I'd be confused about what the remaining quirk is.
Thanks!

Comment 13

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Found an older bug on sort-by-column issues, including Junk.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181143 ***