278764 - New messages for ignored news threads increase group's 'unread' count (until headers retrieved)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.54u1 (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

When new messages arrives to newsgroup with automatic message retrival enabled, 
messages are not checked immediately against ignored threads. So this causes 
newsgroup listing to show new messages on groups where there is no interesting 
new messages.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup automatic news retrival
2. Mark some high traffic news thread as ignored
3. Select some other folder
4. Wait for messages to arrive
(in my case only to one thread)
5. Select news group and new messages count drops back to zero

Actual Results:  
I was **** off ? :)

Expected Results:  
Now suspicious new message indication show on newslisting

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I don't believe there's a way to fix this problem.  When the groups are 
initially scanned, the only information retrieved is the number of new messages 
that have arrived; the new message headers are not downloaded until you enter 
the group, and so the messages can't be checked to see if their threads have 
been killed.

xref bug 250070

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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