210193 - Sent mailboxes in "View: Unread" mode

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Charles Swiger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

The "View: Unread" mode displays zero messages for a "Sent" messages folder
(perhaps because sent messages are marked as read per 198087?).  The view mode
should really be a per-mailbox preference, so that one could have View: All set
for the "Sent" mailbox, use View: Unread for one's INBOX, and perhaps View:
Important for other mailboxes containing older archived mail.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a "Sent" IMAP mailbox.
2. Pull down the View tab and choose "Unread".
3.

Actual Results:  
No messages displayed.

Expected Results:  
The View: Unread preference isn't very useful for a Sent mailbox.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is just how MailViews (the "View tab" you mention) work.  Once you set a 
MailView, it's in place until you turn it off.  I personally wouldn't like to 
see Sent messages being left Unread.

If you use View|Threads|Unread, that setting will be stored on a per-folder 
basis (and does not imply a threaded display, by the way).

(If you think the behavior of MailViews and the View|Messages vs. View|Threads 
menus is confusing, please see bug 237164, also bug 237165.)