217940 - Newsgroup entry bold but without unread/new messages

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Peter Richter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030830 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030830 Firebird/0.6.1+

I've got a newsgroup which has 0 unread and 0 new messages in it. When i select
the News account OR the news group in the sidebar and hit "Get Mail" the
newsgroup entry is bolded and the count of messages is displayed after the name
of the newsgroup. Example: <bold>a.foobar (400)</bold>

To have it displayed correctly i need to leave the newsgroup (select a
different) and reselect it. Then its displayed like i expect: a.foobar

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

This is probably related to same problem and have existed for a some time in 
thunderbird.

If I have selected newsgroup where there is no new messages and then new 
messages scan noticed a new posting in it. It correctly shows new messages in 
sidebard but no new messages is seen in messages view. Need to select another 
newsgroup and then go back to old one to see new messages.

Comment 2

[Robert Harvey]

Attachment: after a scan - incorrect count in newsgroup

For me it happens the other way around.
If I scan for new mail, the news account sometimes shows the total number of
messages on the server (not the number I have downloaded).  Then when I
re-select the newsgroup the number is corrected (typically back to 1, or to
none at all)

This image shows what happens after I scan for new mail

Comment 3

[Robert Harvey]

Attachment: newsgroup displayed: not really any new messsages at all

...And this second screen grab shows what happens once I display the newsgroup.


This happens regularly.  But not very time.  It is not every newsgroup -
sometimes the 1st and 4th are affected, sometimes the 1st and 2nd.  But if it
is going to happen at all, the 1st one on my list is /always/ affected.  

The first one does not have to be uk.local.east-anglia, it has happened with a
different group in that position.

I am using the server at News.Individual.NET (http://www.individual.net/)


This is, of course "minor".  But annoying, and not very swish.

Comment 4

[Robert Harvey]

Is this a duplicate of bug 245589 ?
If so, has bug 245044 fixed this  ?

or is it something to do with bug 249337 ? (I only display threads with unread
messages)

Comment 5

[Tim K]

Thunderbird v0.9 (official build)

I have the same problem where the unread count for various newsgroups is all 
over the place, it doesn't reflect reality. It seems that the markers in the 
configuration files become corrupted, I have to get in and edit them by hand 
once in a while. It doesn't look like the range and list approach is robust in 
the implementation. I lot of the times I end up with a list of read messages 
when they could be converted to a range, e.g.

a.b.c.foo: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-50

When it could be:

a.b.c.foo: 1-50

As soon as I fix it by hand the unread count is back to being correct, for a 
while, until it breaks again ...

Comment 6

[Robert Harvey]

My problems persist in version 1.0

Comment 7

[Robert Harvey]

(In reply to comment #6)
> My problems persist in version 1.0

But only with one group (uk.local.lincolnshire) on one server
(news.individual.net).  I have tried the parameter file edit mentioned above,
and it broke again soon after.  Currently it always says 106 messages, regardless...

Comment 8

[Julien ÉLIE]

The problem is still present in version 1.0.2.

Furthermore, in such accounts, there are underlined threads (even though each 
message in theses threads are marked as read).
And I do not manage to mark the whole thread as read...

Perhaps related to bug 71728 and bug 208082 ?

Comment 9

[Kim G. Pedersen]

*** Bug 304037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mattias]

I have a similar problem but I don't know if it's related to the same bug:

With the inbox is selected, I click on the (+) next to the news account.  First, the news groups are displayed without any unread messages.  Then, the status bar information tells me TB is checking for messages.  Now, one or more groups show either 1 or 2 unread messages.  I'm still viewing the contents of the inbox at this point.  As soon as I click on the news group so that its messages are displayed, the number of unread messages disappear and the caption for the group is un-bolded.

Repeatable any number of times by selecting the in-box, clicking the (-) next to the news account so the groups are hidden, and then pressing (+).

TB version 1.5 (20051201)

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dups? bug 320301? (XP)   bug 335338? (linux)

Comment 12

[Deanna Earley]

I see occasionally where the IDs in the newsrc file get out of sync.
I need to adjust that file to make the IDs contiguious and the "phantom messages" go away.

I guess the server said a post didn't exist at one point so the lost ID got stuck.

Comment 15

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I see several different issues in this bug, IIUC.

Description, which I take to mean this:
<b>random.newsgroup </b> (notice no unread count); i.e., the biff state claims new but with no new messages.

Comment 1: The newsgroup says no new messages when there really is some. Most likely not a problem since it may just indicate that a new message has been posted since our last biff.
Comments 2-4, 6-7: Most likely a combination of bug 311774 and bug 71390.
Comment 5,12: Extremely vague, but sounds like bug 71390 again.
Comment 8: Definitely 71390.
Comment 9: Vague again, but does sound like description
Comment 10: Probably bug 311774
Comment 11, 13: different problems.
Comment 14: Another vague bug (a lot of those, aren't there?), but it can be construed to be the description or a hodgepodge of 71728 deps, mostly 311774, 71390, and 24592.