279898 - [RFE] middle-clicking (or ctrl+click) on a newsgroup/folder name should mark all messages as read

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until August 27)]

One thing I'd love to have is the possibility to mark a whole folder/newsgroup
as read with a middle-click on its name.

I have subscribed to more than 50 newsgroups in Thunderbrid and sometimes I just
don't read some of them for a period of time and I right-click/select mark as
read for 15 or 20 newsgroups every day. I'd like to middle-click on the
newsgroup name (or a folder name for the Mail part of thunderbird) to mark it
quickly as read.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

An alternative approach would be to add a "Unread" column similar to that in the 
thread pane for a message, which you could click on to mark the group read.

Comment 2

[Ryan Hill]

both are kind of clunky.  try selecting the newsgroup and hitting shift + c.  ;)

Comment 3

[Brent Harsh]

Oh man - ever since moving to Thunderbird on Linux from Mozilla 1.7.12 on an older Linux, the missing Shift-Ctrl-C has been killing me.  I finally decided to see if anyone had filed a bug on this yet, only to see Ryan's comment here.  I'm saved.  Thank you for posting the info.  The correct keyboard shortcut has been impossible to find via google over the past 2 months and the mouse-clicks were killing me.

Comment 4

[andrew.weiser]

I would ideally like to be able to select a *folder* that contains unread messages in the folder pane and press 'm' to mark the folder read, just as pressing 'm' when a *message* is selected toggles the read/unread status of the message.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WONTFIX, as middle click is now open in new tab