265465 - mark all articles / messages as read should clean up news .rc file

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

due to someone who remove some postings in a newsgroup I ended up with a
newsgroup that keeps saying it has new postings when it doesn't have.

I have the following in my news.rc file:
netscape.public.mozilla.porkjockeys: 1-4717,4721-4723

so when I press "mark all postings read" this should be changed into:
netscape.public.mozilla.porkjockeys: 1-4723

shouldn't it?

Comment 1

[Jan Schnackenberg]

This error is bugging me since so long, I don't even want to think about how often I edited the rc-file as described by the original poster.

Does this really never happen to a developer who could do something about it?

Apart from that: This error happens not only on WinXP, but on every OS in every build of Thunderbird or Mozilla that I ever tried. Someone might want to change that.

Comment 2

[Rich Gray (:rbgray)]

I'm also seeing it in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070107 SeaMonkey/1.1 and have in the past.  

Hardware and OS should be changed to All.


mozilla.support.firefox: 1,21001-42874

The effect of this is to have a persistent unread message count, corresponding to the gap.   One can Mark > All Read and temporarily have a zero count displayed, but as soon as the backend refreshes, it "discovers" the unread messages and the count jumps back up to the "sticky" unread count + any real new messages.   Mark > All Read should set the above to 1-42874, right?

(I believe I got into this situation by accidentally double clicking on m.s.ff which opened two m-n windows...)

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

This sounds like something that should definitely be done, although this may become unneeded by 79130.

Comment 5

[vedhanthi]

hi,
    I am newbee just wanna start somewhere I started here. I dont know how to proceed I know c and linux.
please guide me how to go about fixing the bugs i mean necessary software and hardware platforms packages etc,, 

thanks
vedhathi

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

vedhanthi, Are you still interested?

Comment 7

[Soumyadip Saha]

hi,
I am newbee just wanna start somewhere I started here. I dont know how to proceed I know c++ and linux.
please guide me how to go about fixing the bugs i mean necessary software and hardware platforms packages etc,,

thanks
Soumyadip

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

is anybody still using NNTP ?