266322 - unread message count in Windows vs alphabetic ordering of email accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 196657

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Dan M]

What follows seems to me to be true after some live testing and a glance over
the code:

* The Mail backend writes into the Windows registry the count of unread messages
only for the primary mail account.
* The Mail toolbar button in Firefox reads the count of unread messages only for
the first email address it runs across when enumerating the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail key.
* Therefore the Firefox Mail toolbar button will never pick up unread messages
for any account on the user's machine unless the primary Mail/News account
happens to be the one that comes first in alphabetical order.

Mail/News would seem to be better off if it kept an Unread count for all
accounts, not just the primary account. (And it would be best if the Firefox
Mail toolbar button could be configured to pay attention to a particular email
account. But that'd be a different bug.)

Note I think bug 257391 touched on similar issues. But it eventually settled
into a request to update the registry immediately, so that too is a different bug.

Comment 1

[Dan M]

Ah. And bug 246143, if you ignore the first 22 comments and the grammar while
they were drilling in on the cause of the initial complaint, is the Firefox side
of this issue that I mentioned in the third paragraph of this bug's initial
comment. Marking, I guess, that one dependent on this one, since Thunderbird is
on the upstream side of this two-pronged issue.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The duplicate is the first symptom of the report; the other two symptoms are FF 
bug 246143 -- I'll update the dependency.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196657 ***