273688 - "Mark message read after displaying for..." checkbox should disable marking as unread on viewing, but doesn't

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 234121

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[tools187]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

the option to mark mail as read after displaying in the viewing pane offers (a)
a checkbox and (b) a timeout
checking the checkbox should mean that messages mark as read after the timeout
unchecking the checkbox should mean that messages never mark as read, no matter
how long they're viewed for
however, thunderbird ignores the checkbox and follows the timeout, i.e. even
when this functionality is deselected by the checkbox, tb still employs the
functionality
the workaround is clearly to set the timeout high, but it shouldn't be hard to
check the status of the checkbox

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set timeout for marking read to 5 seconds
2. uncheck the checkbox (i.e., tb should not ever mark displayed messages as read)
3. select an unread mail with the viewing pane on

Actual Results:  
tb will, after 5 seconds, mark the mail as read

Expected Results:  
the mail should display in the viewing pane but remain marked as unread until
manually altered to read -- tb should not automatically mark messages read when
the checkbox is unchecked

Comment 1

[John Lemon]

Duplicate of 234121, 262252, and several more.

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234121 ***