293146 - newsgroups show multiple copies of same Message-ID

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Reed Snellenberger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: 1.0.2 (20050317)

Articles that have been previously been marked "read" are showing back up in the
article list (when viewing with View->Threads->Threads_with_Unread), but are
duplicated in the message list.  They show up at the same nexting level in the
article tree and, when I set View->Headers->Full and switch back-and-forth
between the two duplicates, appear to be the same exact article (same
Message-ID, etc).  It doesn't happen for every article (see attached screen grab).

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set View options to View->Threads->Threads_with_Unread
2.Mark newsgroup "read"
3.wait a day or two (for another article to be posted in the thread)

Actual Results:  
An article that has previously been marked as read will show up in the header
list  with a twin brother.

Expected Results:  
Article should not be duplicated in the list

two screen grabs attached

Comment 1

[Reed Snellenberger]

Attachment: shows header list with dups

Comment 2

[Reed Snellenberger]

Attachment: Full message header for duplicated article

Comment 3

[K Chayka]

FWIW, I also saw this when I updated from the April 17 TB build to a more recent
nightly (don't remember exactly which). Removing the .msf files for the
afflicted newsgroups cleared it up.

WFM?

Comment 4

[Reed Snellenberger]

(In reply to comment #3)
> FWIW, I also saw this when I updated from the April 17 TB build to a more recent
> nightly (don't remember exactly which). Removing the .msf files for the
> afflicted newsgroups cleared it up.
> 
> WFM?

I'll keep your solution in my hip pocket, but can wait a bit to see if I need
them to help figure out the bug.  It's an annoyance (more some days than others
-- yesterday, I was seeing 30-40 "old" messages with 2-3 new ones) but I can
live with it for a bit...

Comment 5

[Reed Snellenberger]

Following up my earlier post, I went ahead and deleted the msf files for all of
my newsgroups as suggested by Chayka, and I'm still seeing duplicate messages in
the list.  (I closed T-bird first, of course).  (I realized I had backups of the
msf files, so waiting was un-necessary).

Comment 6

[Piotr Gaertig]

This bug may be related with that:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243048

Comment 7

[Reed Snellenberger]

(In reply to comment #6)
> This bug may be related with that:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243048

Yes, it looks similar... not much information in that report, tho...

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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