232104 - "delete mail marked as junk in this folder" doesn't clear 'new' flag on account (or biff tray icon)

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Jochen Eisinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040118
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040118

Every nigh there are about 8-10 mails that manage to pass my spam filters. Those
end up in my (IMAP) inbox - and get automatically marked as junk. Since I don't
automatically move/delete mails marked as junk, they remain there.

Each morning I delete those using "Tools -> Delete mails marked as junk in this
folder". This works fine so far, however the biff state isn't reset (in case
there are no other new mails).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jaak Simm]

Same happens on Windows XP, with Mozilla 1.6 mail client using IMAP.

"Delete mail marked as junk" does not remove status bar notification about new
mails when all unread new mails are deleted.
Mail client should do a check after deleting junk mails whether
new-mail-notification is still accurate.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

If you simply delete a new message using the context menu's Delete, that also 
does not clear the notification flags: bug 157115.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 251451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Same problem in Thunderbird, by the way (seen in 0.7 & 0.8, Win2K).

Comment 5

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: half-baked attempt

I'm not sure this works at all since I can't build MailNews at the moment, but
it should have some impact, at least.

I should rather wait and not attach a patch before I know perfectly well what's
going on, but since I'm fairly certain this should work in most cases, I
thought I'd ask for some help in testing it ...

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 316027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

does patch still apply?

may need someone to drive in Vidar's draft patch

no doubt also reported on getsatisfaction and mozillazine, but tad hard to track down a good match. But perhaps this bug or an offshoot will help http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/mail_notification_doesnt_disappear_when_mail_moved_then_deleted

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Vidar's done great work, but won't be working on this.

Comment 11

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> does patch still apply?

Nope.

$ patch -p0 --dry-run < ~/Desktop/attachment.cgi 
patching file mailnews/base/src/nsMsgDBView.cpp
Hunk #1 FAILED at 5659.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file mailnews/base/src/nsMsgDBView.cpp.rej

Comment 12

[Marvin Fröhlich]

1+

And this bug is still there in Thunderbird 17.0.8.