22570 - message header count does not update

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

problem: the message header counts in mozilla news do not update / refresh.

steps to reproduce: select a news group with new messages.  select an unread
message header to display the message or clcik on the little read/un-read green
diamond to change a read message to un-read status.

actual behavior: the message count in the left pane (mail and news server
pane) does not update.

expected behavior: each time a message header is read or marked unread the
unread message count listed in the server pane should reflect that change /
update

tested on win32 build from 12/22 (and other recent builds) under windows98

additional information: the count should also update when you select a news
group and it downloads new headers.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

accepting.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

I have a fix for this.  Will attach patch shortly.  I found this because the
same thing was happening in pop.  There's a member variable in local and news
called mPath that used to be a nsNativeFileSpec*.  Someone brought this to the
base class and changed it to an nsIFileSpec but left it in derived classes. This
caused some functions to fail.  I changed the derived versions to use base class
version and everything worked out.

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

cc'ing bienvenu in case he's been given bugs that are related to this.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

Attachment: patch for bug. This is just news directory. Local is similar. For some reason Imap is already #ifdef'd out.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

re-assign to putterman, as he has the fix.

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

i just checked in the fix

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

verified for news.  I've not tried pop or imap.
nice work, putterman.

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

thank you putterman. this fix is really appreciated.

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

*** Bug 22182 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[fenella]

Linux Redhat 6.0 (2000-01-04-08 M13)
Win_nt 4.0 (2000-01-04-09 M13)
Mac (2000-01-04-09 M13)
Message header count update works well. I try it on POP, IMAP and news on all 3
platforms.