277949 - Collapsed account folders should still have unread mail count displayed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 235956

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Bryan Perry]

First off, I want to say "Bravo". Thunderbird is an excellent product, and is
working very well for us. I'm pushing it on everyone I know as the best email
client they can use.

Now, here is the one thing I wish we could do that I currently cannot. I am in
the main mail view with the account/folder list down the left and the message
list top right and individual message window bottom right. I have more mail
accounts added than I can see down the left side if they are all expanded, so I
would like to keep them collapsed to view them all on the same screen without
needing to scroll. However, when my accounts are collapsed, I cannot tell if
there are unread messages in the account.

My request is simply: If the account is collapsed, can we put the unread message
count after the account name? ie: [e-mail] (96)

The message count could be all unread messages for that account summed together,
or simply the count of unread messages in the inbox.

Thanks again for an awesome product. I hope we can make this one tweak to make
it even better.

-Bryan

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

Adjusting summary for clarity

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 235956 ***