272351 - Account's New flag doesn't appear if click new mail alert

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

New mail flag doesn't appear if new mail notification clicked on very quickly
after it appears.

When the new mail notification pop-up in the right corner of the screen appears,
if you click on it very quickly to bring up the mail window, the new mail flag
on the folder icon doesn't appear, although the mail shows up in the folder.
You have to rifle around in the mailboxes to find which one had the new mail.

I my case there is a filter that is directing the mail to this particular
folder.  I have multiple email accounts set up, and this account is the
second account of two.  The filter puts the email into a folder within this account.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Make folder in a mail account
2.  Make a filter to deliver mail to this folder.
3.  Send and email that will be delivered to the folder.
4.  When the new mail notication appears, quickly click on it to bring
    the mail window forward.
Actual Results:  
New mail flag on folder doesn't appear.  Mail is delivered to folder.

Expected Results:  
New mail flag on folder appears.  Mail is delivered to folder.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Which version of TB are you using?

I have tried to reproduce this but cannot.  POP mail or IMAP?  Is the filter's 
destination folder local or remote (IMAP)?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I take it back -- I see this.  If you click the pop-up alert, the new flag is 
not placed on the account, nor is the notification (tray) icon displayed.

Filtering doesn't enter into it.

Interestingly: a single click on the alert brings up the window; the tray icon 
requires a double click.

TB 0.9+1126, Win2K.  POP mail.

Comment 3

[Doug Hockin]

I was requested to revisit this bug and see if it still happens in the current version. I don't think it does, but not because it's been "fixed", but rather because the I think the behavior has been changed. Now when you click on a message in the alert box, TB is brought to the front, the message you clicked on is selected and visible in the content frame and the new message flag is cleared.
It's been a long time since I reported this so I can't remember for certain, but
I don't think that in the old days TB was brought to the front, nor was the message selected -- the flag was just cleared.

Anyway, I'm marking it as fixed, works for me because the current behavior seems reasonable. TB 2.0.0.6