253298 - Mail filtered with 'Move' is marked as read even if 'Mark the message as read' is unchecked

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Martin Ryzl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Mail filtered with 'Move' is marked as read even if 'Mark the message as read'
is unchecked. It happens in Mozilla 1.7.1 as well as in Thunderbird 0.7.2. I
doesn't happen in Mozilla 1.6. I use filters to move mails from various mailing
lists to their folders and read only some of the new messages. Then I compact
the inbox, leaving only important email in the inbox and use folders as
archives. Such model is now broken because it is difficult to determine which
messages are new.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a 'Move' filter, make sure 'Mark the message as read' is unchecked.
2. send an email wich satisfies the conditions of the filer above


Actual Results:  
mail is marked as read in inbox

Expected Results:  
mail is marked as new

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I am definitely not seeing this bug, with
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040726

Is there only one filter active?  An earlier filter (one that appears above the 
problem one in the list) could be marking the message read.

Comment 2

[Martin Ryzl]

I've just downloaded 1.8a2 and the problem is still there - after the message is
moved, it is marked as both deleted and read in inbox. In 1.6 it is only marked
as deleted.

Comment 3

[Martin Ryzl]

Also I forgot to mention that I have disabled all filter except one.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Please attach your  msgFilterRules.dat  file to this bug, along with a sample 
email message (saved as a .eml file) which shows the problem.

Comment 5

[Martin Ryzl]

Attachment: Sample email message

Comment 6

[Martin Ryzl]

Attachment: msgFilterRules.dat file

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Oh, this is for IMAP mail.  Is the mail coming to that same IMAP account, or are 
you filtering from a different account (IMAP or POP) to those IMAP folders?

Comment 8

[Martin Ryzl]

The same IMAP account. Although I occasionaly use a POP account, I only use
filters with one IMAP, never copy from one account to another.

Comment 9

[Martin Ryzl]

any chance this will get fixed soon? it makes all releases past 1.6 unusable for
me :(.

Comment 10

[Doug Wright]

*** Bug 234706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Hmm, I wonder if this bug isn't just a misunderstanding. Reporter: you are
talking about the original message *in the inbox* being marked as read don't
you? If you don't want it to be marked as read (+deleted), use copy instead of move.

The 'Mark the message as read' action is applied to the message after it have
been moved, not to the message in your inbox.

Comment 12

[Martin Ryzl]

Behavior of move action (during filtering) in 1.6:
- copy the message from inbox to another folder
- mark the message as deleted in inbox

in 1.7 and higher
- copy the message from inbox to another folder
- mark the message as deleted in inbox
- mark the message as read in inbox

what I'd like to achieve is the behavior from 1.6, i.e. message is copied to
another folder and marked as deleted but not read in inbox.

Comment 13

[David :Bienvenu]

this is imap? There were a lot of complaints that we didn't mark messages read
when they were deleted, so we changed that behaviour...it's unlikely that we'll
go back to the old behaviour.

Comment 14

[Martin Ryzl]

yes, it's imap. It's pity cause new behavior doesn't allow to use filtering as
automatic archiving, i.e. have all new emails unread in inbox while some of them
are automatically archived in folders.

Comment 15

[David :Bienvenu]

if you're using the imap delete model, you could do a copy filter action
followed by a delete action, and I think that would leave the messages in the
inbox as unread.

Comment 16

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Closing this one since the behaviour is as designed. Davids workaround of using
a Copy + Delete filter action from comment 15 should definitely work imo. It
doesn't though. Filed bug 307540 about that. 

Wontfix per comment #13.