292399 - News account shows incorrect number of unread messages

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Greg Colyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

This may be a regression of bug 59681. That's why I've chosen Product: Core and
Component: MailNews: Database.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to rec.food.sourdough on news1.on.sympatico.ca (if you can)
2. Open the drop-down for the account
3. Select the line "r.f.sourdough"
4. Read all the unread messages
5. Close the drop-down
6. Go to 2

Alternative:
5'. Click on Get Msgs
6'. Select the name of the account (i.e. off the line "r.f.sourdough")
7'. Go to 3
Actual Results:  
First time around:
At 2, shows (in bold) e.g. "r.f.sourdough (11)" (i.e. 11 unread messages).
After 4, shows (non-bold) "r.f.sourdough" (i.e. no unread messages).

Second and subsequent times around (i.e. after 6 or after 7'):
At 2 or 5', shows (in bold) "r.f.sourdough (11)" again.
At 3, shows (non-bold) "r.f.sourdough" (correctly).

Expected Results:  
Second and subsequent times around, should not change from (non-bold)
"r.f.sourdough".

The bug may be restricted to occasions when there are no new messages. If a new
message has arrived and Get Msgs is clicked, the correct new total (i.e. 1) is
shown. If that message is read and the procedure continued as before and no
further messages have arrived, it goes back to the original wrong number (i.e.
11 in the example above).

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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