277287 - Filtered mail deleted (as junkmail) is reported as a new message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233930

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Stuart French]

I have a mail filter setup to delete messages sent to a certain alias (because
it is constantly spammed and I dont use it) and mail is moved to deleted folder.

Any messages collected from my POP3 account that match this criteria are also
counted as a new message (when mozilla has finished collecting mail) EVEN tho
they are inevitably identified as spam.

Thanks for a great product, keep up the good work :)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Does the filter use the action "move to <Trash>" or the action "delete message"?
If the former, does the filter also use the action "mark as read"?

A message that is not marked as read (which occurs automatically when the 
"delete" action is used) will cause a notification.  If a message is filtered 
out of the Inbox, it will not be scanned by the junk controls until the 
destination filter is opened, so the mail won't be known to be junk until then.

xref bug 233930 -- which I believe this bug is a dupe of; also bug 200788.

Comment 2

[Stuart French]

The filter uses the action "move to <trash>" but not "mark as read"

The reason for this is my own stupidity, I have since changed to "delete the
message" (I can only guess I failed to notice the scroll bar..)

I am no longer sure that just because a message is filtered to the "trash" and
counted as a new message that this is a bug, perhaps just odd behaviour.

I do think somthing needs to be done about this though, perhaps run junkmail
filter on messages before filtering, or perhaps ignore messages moved to trash
by a filter since the user obviously doesnt want to read them neither do they
want to be notified of these new messages.

another solution would be to run junkmail filters on "trash" and other folders
before notifying of new messages, tho running junkmail filter on "trash" sounds
a bit dodgy methinks.

not sure if this is a dupe or not :)

Regards

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233930 ***