200117 - Any email from X10 always arrives as "Read" and is never marked as "Junk", no matter how many times I indicate that it should be

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 196749

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jess McGraw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030329
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030329

Somehow I've ended up on X10's junk mail list.  Whenever I download new mail,
all of my other messages arrive as "Unread" but every message from X10 arrives
as "Read".  Additionally, since this is junk mail, I always mark it as being
junk but Mailnews never marks it as junk on it's own.

The one wrinkle in this process is that I'm using YahooPops to download email
from my Yahoo account, so it's possible that the read/unread situation is caused
by some bizarre interaction there; however, that doesn't explain the inability
to automatically mark the messages as junk.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download new email via POP
2. New messages arrive, ones from X10 are marked as already read, all others are
marked as unread
3.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Fixed in bug 196749?

Comment 2

[John Hoffman]

This most likely isn't related to your Yahoo utilities as the same problem 
occurs for me, and I'm not running any such extras.  My system is running a 
basic Thunderbird 0.73 installation, and is working through a common POP3 
connection.

However, messages still arrive every so often which are marked as "read" even 
though they've just arrived in the inbox.  I believe that this is most likely a 
strategy on the part of spammers to avoid spam filters (which usually only 
operate on newly recieved messages to avoid the overhead of processing every 
single message in the folder each time the mail client completes a transaction 
with the server.)  If a filter only operates on messages marked as new/unread, 
a message pre-flagged as "read" could evade the spam filter and remain in one's 
inbox.  An efficient workaround for this would be to specifically flag all 
newly downloaded messages as "unread" as they come in, before the spam filter 
routine is called.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Jess McGraw, if you are using TB 0.8 or Moz 1.8a4, please state whether this 
problem has been fixed for you; if so, please dupe to bug 196749.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter, duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196749 ***