275771 - Watch and Ignore no longer work on newsgroup threads after installing Enigmail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[John David Galt]

After installing the Enigmail extension, the commands "Ignore thread" and "Watch
thread" under the Messages menu, and their keyboard equivalents K and W, no
longer work on any newsgroup thread.  The commands, whether entered by mouse or
keyboard, are simply ignored.  This happens both under Thunderbird 0.8 and the
recent 1.0 release.

I apologize for not knowing how to tell whether the actual problem lies in TB or
the extension.  If anyone can suggest ways to investigate this question, I'll be
happy to try.

Comment 1

[John David Galt]

Let me be more precise:  the "watch thread" command is simply ignored.  The
"ignore thread" command behaves as "mark thread read" (T on the keyboard), but
does not perform its proper function of preventing me from seeing subsequent
posts in that thread.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

I'd suggest contacting the enigmail people - I don't think it's a thunderbird
problem.

Comment 3

[John David Galt]

Reported for Enigmail also, at
   http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8585

Comment 4

[Patrick Brunschwig]

I'm the author of Enigmail. I can't confirm this, it works fine with Enigmail
enabled. 

Actually, Enigmail does not do anything related to the thread pane, nor does it
overlay any of the functions in the View and Message menus, nor does it redefine
the keys K and W

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

do you have any other extensions besides enigmail? It does seem unlikely that
enigmail could be messing with this...

Comment 6

[John David Galt]

At the urging of Barry Porter [e-mail], I created a new profile as
instructed at http://enigmail.mozdev.org/newprofile.html, and it made the
problem go away.  I don't know why.