226646 - Tray icon stays when new mail arrives and filters move all the messages to local folders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 222280

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Juan Antonio Domínguez Pérez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031013)

The tray icon stays when new mail arrives and the filters move all the 
received messages to local folders (until here is ok). I need to click in any 
of the empty folders (i.e: inbox of my account mailbox) to remove the icon 
from the system tray.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make a filter to move messages received from our account to a local folder
2.Send a test message to our account from the same account
3.Get the mail, and you will see the icon in the system tray. Read the message.
Actual Results:  
The icon stays at the system tray even if there are no messages unreaded.

Expected Results:  
Remove the icon when there is no unread messages in any folder, except trash 
folders which can contain unread messages with no icon in sys tray.

Comment 1

[Ian Clarke]

In addition to this bug (which, while minor, I find very annoying), new email 
seems to appear momentarily in the inbox before being filtered as spam or into 
a local folder.  I should not be alerted if my filters mark the new mail as 
read, and certainly not if it has been flagged as spam.

Comment 2

[eemeli]

Also additionally, the alert about new mail having arrived is
incorrect/confusing when the mail is filtered into a different folder, as the
alert appears to count the number of new messages in the inbox after message
filters have been run, ie.

1) New mail arrives
2) Mail is filtered to a local folder
3) There is an alert "[account] has 0 new messages"

After having received & filtered mail, the message alert icon in the system tray
also disappears only after I've given focus to the account to which the mail was
delivered.

Could all of this be sorted by having the new mail alert learn not only that new
mail has arrived to an account, but also where that mail was filtered to? This
way the alert could read "[account] has 1 new message, filtered to [folder]" or
something similar.

Comment 3

[Dan Soper]

Looks like three different bugs here... :-P

I'm seeing the bug as originally described, only without needing step #1. At
this moment, I have no unread messages anywhere, and yet the taskbar icon says
there's one.



I wonder how the suggestion in Comment #2 ("This
way the alert could read '[account] has 1 new message, filtered to [folder]' or
something similar.") would work if there was more than one message, and they
weren't in the same folder?

Comment 4

[Dan Soper]

Postscript: another email came in. I read it, removed the incorrect Junk label
(sill training the spam detector), followed a link in it, and deleted it. 

The tray icon has now gone.

Comment 5

[Rolf Smeds]

The same applies when a new mail is deleted manually.

Comment 6

[manuel 'fmf' ferrero]

It happens to me too, but just sometimes.
Normally receiving a new mail after the bug happens reset the problem: reading
the new one makes the tray icon disappear correctly.
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205) on Windows 98 SE.

Comment 7

[Dan Soper]

Still seeing this in TB 0.6 (20040502), running on Win98SE which I re-installed
on a freshly re-formatted HD within the last week.

Comment 8

[Andrew Lin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 222280 ***