262746 - Need menu option and/or keyboard shortcut to mark messages unread

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[John David Galt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

In previous versions of Netscape/Mozilla, typing upper case M (or an equivalent
command in the Message menu) toggled the "read/unread" setting on whatever
message(s) were selected, but now (in Thunderbird 0.8) it just marks them all as
read.  It's still possible to mark an individual message as unread by clicking
the dot in the list-of-messages window, but the only way to do it for multiple
messages is to manually click that dot for each one, which is unacceptable. 
Please either restore the old behavior of the "M" command or create a new
command (perhaps "U") which marks all selected messages as unread.  This applies
to all folders including mail, news, RSS, and Local Folders.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gabe Jones]

WFM with Thunderbird 20040913 on WinXP Pro SP2, except with lowercase 'm', not
uppercase.  If you press 'm' with multiple messages selected, the state of all
of those messages seems to be set to the opposite of the state of the first
message selected.  For example, if you select a set of messages and the first
(topmost) message is currently marked unread, when you press 'm' all of the
selected messages will be marked read.  Pressing 'm' again will then mark all of
the selected messages unread.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Comment 1 is correct, lower-case 'm' toggles the read/unread state, and the 
multiple-selection case is kind of strange but consistent.  I don't think upper-
case M has ever been the hotkey, any more than the upper-case of any other 
unmodified hotkey (N, P, B, F, T, R) has.  (Exception: Shift-J is Mark as Not 
Junk.)

Comment 3

[todd]

when i reply to a message by selecting an unread one, i'd excpect it to be marked as read; this doesn't happen. if not by default behavior, then an option to do this.  

i've tried: 
options: mark message as read when viewing for 0/1 seconds (checked and unchecked)

w xp sp1; t/b rc1