272652 - Movemail account icon doesn't show new mails

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Movemail, defect)

Description

[Bernhard Walle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

If a new mail arrives in the Movemail account, the icon left on the Profile name
doesn't show the new mail. Only the mail left of the Inbox. So if I keep the
account tree collapsed (i.e. "[+] Local" instead of "[-] Local"), I don't see
new mails. :(

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Movemail account.
2. Send you a mail
3. Receive the mail in Thunderbird.
4. The icon doesn't show this.
Actual Results:  
The icon left of the Account name doesn't show the new mail.

Expected Results:  
It should show the new mail just as every normal POP3/IMAP account does.

Comment 1

[Stephen Walker]

Do we just need to get a qute server-local-new.png created and add the
corresponding biffState-NewMail css?  Seamonkey has a server-local-new.gif and
pinstripe has a server-local-new.png, but neither are referenced anywhere.

Comment 2

[Bernhard Walle]

Is this question targeted to me? I don't know, I'm only the reporter.

Comment 3

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

Attachment: Screenshot showing movemail coming in

It's not clear to me what this bug is about. 
So I took a screenshot of my account named "Movemail Box" just after movemail
came in.
There is one icon left of "Movemail Box". This one is not highlighted.
And there is (one line below) one icon left of "Inbox" which is clearly
highlighted.

Which one did the reporter mean?

Comment 4

[Bernhard Walle]

I meant the top icon.

Comment 5

[Yuxuan Wang]

Attachment: movemail account vs. normal account

the first account is a normal account, and the icon changes, the second account("local") is the movemail account, and the icon doesn't change

Comment 6

[Yuxuan Wang]

I have the same problem. please see attachment #223891 [details]

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Rich, related perhaps to bug 344066?

sorry but I won't be any help with biff and notification stuff - I don't use much if it and what parts I do I don't pay much attention to.

Comment 8

[Rich Gray (:rbgray)]

I don't understand either.   Is this about not getting the NEW flag?  Bug 344066 is about not seeing New status (green arrow in SM, bold blue in TB) on the Account and Inbox items in the folder pane if the mail window is closed when the mail arrives.   Sounds like that just doesn't happen at all for movemail...

Has this even been tried on a recent/trunk TB or SM?   Would any further reporters please make sure to included build ID and OS info?

Comment 9

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Reconfirmed with Linux 3.0b1pre. The server does not get the biff state.

Comment 10

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081219 SeaMonkey/2.0a3pre - Build ID: 20081219000443

Haven't paid attention to the icon, but regardless of what I set in "Check mail every...", the only way I can get Movemail mail is to check for it manually (e.g. "File => Get new messages for => Movemail account"). It never gets its own mail, neither at startup (whose checkbox is also on), nor every X minutes if there is any. OTOH when I log in to bash _that_ program tells me whether I have new mail, (old) mail or no mail, so that's what I use for a "biff warning" for that account.

Comment 11

[:aceman]

Tonymec, that looks like bug 480945.

The original icon problem may be something bug 377507 tries to solve for unread messages.
Do we want this for the "newmessages" property too?

Comment 12

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #11)
> Tonymec, that looks like bug 480945.

Yes, indeed it is, and I was the guy who set that bug to VERIFIED a few days after it was RESOLVED FIXED.

> 
> The original icon problem may be something bug 377507 tries to solve for
> unread messages.
> Do we want this for the "newmessages" property too?

Bug 377507 apparently doesn't make a difference between "unread" and "new" messages. Its Summary mentions both. Isn't this a dupe then?

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Support for Movemail has been removed as of version 87 per Bug 1625741