242206 - Next unread doesn't work after Ctrl-T on server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ray Trent]

It's useful to click on a news server in the Folders pane and hit Ctrl-T to
check for messages, because it checks all the newsgroups subscribed on that
server, rather than just the currently selected one. 

The next natural thing to do is to hit N to read the first unread message on
that server, but this doesn't work. Nothing happens; you just stay focussed on
the server line. 

I'm using Thunderbird (build 20040214) these days, but I'm pretty sure this
happened in Seamonkey too the last time I used it (I'm never quite sure which
Product to report these kinds of things on, these days).

A reasonably minor annoyance, since you can just click on the first group with
unread messages and then hit N, but it would be nice to have it fixed.

Comment 1

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

Probably a dupe of Bug 166342 ?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

thunderbird works this way also - 'N' is not enabled at account level for mail or news, regardless of ctrl-T

by design?

Comment 3

[Karsten Düsterloh]

(In reply to comment #2)
> by design?

Yes, although I always wondered why. I'm all for dropping this limitation.

Comment 4

[Ray Trent]

For whatever reason, this seems to work on current builds.