210566 - SEND LATER fails to set the REPLIED or FORWARDED status (flag) on the message

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

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

It you SEND LATER an email message with the REPLY button the REPLIED flag in the
inbox does not get set.  Neither does it get set when the mail is actually sent.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reply to an email.
2.Click SEND LATER.
3.The status remains Read and does not change to Replied.
4.When you actually click FILE>SEND UNSENT MESSAGES, the status of the original
mail remains READ.

Actual Results:  
See above.

Expected Results:  
Either when you click SEND LATER or when you actually send the reply to an
email, the status should change to REPLIED.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duplicated with 1.4 Final, Windows 2000.

This is also true for forwarding.  I couldn't find any exact dupes, altho the 
symptom about forwarding is mentioned in bug 60795.

Confirming; updating summary to mention 'forward' and 'status'

Comment 2

[Markus Moebs]

Duplicated with 1.6b Linux.

Probably this can be marked as a dupe of bug #128996? I believe these two bugs
have the same cause.

If a Mail is not sent directly but temporarily stored in another Folder (e.g.
Drafts as in bug #128996) the Status of the replied Mail remains read.

You can set the OS Field to All, I think...

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 220333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Confirmed with a tree built 2004-apr-15.
This bug is ***very*** annoying. I replied to dozens of mails flying from Paris
to SF today, sent them when I arrived at my hotel, and the status is still only
"read" :-/ Given the fact it's the only of keeping track easily of the mails one
has replied to, I think this is a severe bug for mailbox management.

Comment 5

[:aceman]

Isn't this a dup of Bug 103732? But that was fixed before the last comments in
this bug. It could be a regression, because I know this feature worked after
david fixed it.

Comment 6

[Joe Mehaffey]

It is fixed in 1.8 Alpha, at least for the "SEND LATER" case.  I have not
noticed it fixed in prior editions

Comment 7

[:aceman]

Which other case does this bug cover??? David fixed it so that the 'replied'
status is set at the time the message is actually sent. And it already worked in
1.5.

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Which other case does this bug cover??? David fixed it so that the 'replied'
> status is set at the time the message is actually sent.

The "other case" would be sending a draft -- bug 128996.
My bad for not finding bug 103732 when looking for dupes at comment 1.
I'm not sure whether I tested this with a 1.6x build, when I made the dupe at 
comment 3.

This does WFM with
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040710

Markus Moebs, Daniel Glazman -- is this bug still a problem for you with current 
builds?

Comment 9

[Joe Mehaffey]

works for me in 1.8A2

Comment 10

[N Brooks]

I get this using the Magic SLR to delay sending until I want to. Using TB 17.0.3. After writing a message, click Send Later, so it stays in Outbox. Then file the original message to a folder. Then do Get/Send to flush the Outbox. No "Replied" arrow appears. Same goes for Forwarding.
This is VERY VERY annoying, as I nearly always file my messages after replying. It's impossible to tell if I've replied to people !

Regards
Nigel

Comment 11

[:aceman]

Nigel, try not moving the original message before the reply/forward is really sent out. TB maintains a link to the original message so it can mark it with the icon once the reply is sent, but it probably isn't omnipotent to follow the message anywhere you move it.