298684 - Want window or notification that itemizes new (filtered) messages by folder

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Alessandro Minghelli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I've many folder where the messages are filtered when I download them. When I
download new message, if some (many) folder contains unreaded message, I don't
understand where are located new messages. So I'd like a window, when the
download  is ended, thet say...
Folder xxx   3 new messages
Folder yyy   2 new messages
folder xyx   10 new message

Using the filter log isn't a good idea cause this function said for every
message what filter was used and don't show a summary

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Press send and reiceve mail
2. the mail are automatically filtered
3. if a message is filtered in a folder that contains new message the things is
not so evident

Actual Results:  
see below

Expected Results:  
The software show a list with the folder that contains new message

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I've many folder where the messages are filtered when I download them. When I
> download new message, if some (many) folder contains unreaded message, I don't
> understand where are located new messages. So I'd like a window, when the
> download  is ended, thet say...
> Folder xxx   3 new messages
> Folder yyy   2 new messages
> folder xyx   10 new message
> 
> 3. if a message is filtered in a folder that contains new message the things
> is not so evident

Are you saying that, if a folder *already* has unread messages that when the new 
messages are filtered to that folder, you can't tell, because the folder name 
was already bold (in the folder tree)?

Are you using IMAP or POP mail?  If IMAP, are you filtering to IMAP folders, or 
to Local Folders?

The way this is supposed to work is, when a New message (different from Unread) 
arrives in a folder, the folder is tagged with a little flag (a small orange 
dot, in the default theme) -- that's how you can tell that new mail has arrived 
in the folder since the last time you checked.  

The account also gets a New flag.  However, if you are filtering messages out of 
the account and into Local Folders (or some other POP account's folder), the New 
flag remains on the original account, not the account containing the destination 
folder.

Note that the little flag is cleared in certain cases even if you don't look at 
the folder: when you click Get New Messages, and when you exit the program, are 
the two most obvious cases.

Comment 2

[Alessandro Minghelli]

Attachment: A view of my folders pane

Comment 3

[Alessandro Minghelli]

     ------- Additional Comment #2 From Alessandro Minghelli  2005-06-27 14:46
PDT  -------

Created an attachment (id=187437) [edit]
A view of my folders pane

Your additional comment was:

(In reply to comment #1)

> 
> Are you saying that, if a folder *already* has unread messages that when the new 
> messages are filtered to that folder, you can't tell, because the folder name 
> was already bold (in the folder tree)?
> 
Yes it's so. The number of unreaded message change but I don't notice that

> Are you using IMAP or POP mail?  If IMAP, are you filtering to IMAP folders, or 
> to Local Folders?

I'm usig Global folder in POP3 multiaccount MAIL. I Have many folder in Local
Folder where I filter my messages when they arrive

> 
> The way this is supposed to work is, when a New message (different from Unread) 
> arrives in a folder, the folder is tagged with a little flag (a small orange 
> dot, in the default theme) -- that's how you can tell that new mail has arrived 
> in the folder since the last time you checked.  
> 

I see just a number of unreaded messages. No orange dot. I'm sorry :)

> The account also gets a New flag.  However, if you are filtering messages out of 
> the account and into Local Folders (or some other POP account's folder), the New 
> flag remains on the original account, not the account containing the destination 
> folder.
> 

As I said above I work with a global folder so I haven't folder for account

I tried to attach an image of my folders pane.  In this image you can see a view
of some folders of mine. There is a folder that have 29 messages unreaded. If
the number change in 39 I'll have many difficult to see that new message
downloaded is in that folder. I hope now it's more clear.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I see just a number of unreaded messages. No orange dot. I'm sorry :)

I do see the destination *folder* getting the New flag, in TB 1.0.2 and 
pre-1.1 nightly builds, whether the original POP account is deferred to the 
global inbox or not.  The "orange dot" (or, in Mozilla, the "green arrow") is 
shown as part of the folder icon; depending on which theme you're using, it 
could appear as something else, or even not be shown at all.

Bug 202783 is about the failure to put a New flag on the destination *account* 
(which would include "Local Folders") when a new message arrives in it; and 
bug 116181 is (in part) about the original account getting flagged even if all 
new messages have been filtered out of it.

Comment 5

[Alessandro Minghelli]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I do see the destination *folder* getting the New flag, in TB 1.0.2 and 
> pre-1.1 nightly builds, whether the original POP account is deferred to the 
> global inbox or not.  The "orange dot" (or, in Mozilla, the "green arrow") is 
> shown as part of the folder icon; depending on which theme you're using, it 
> could appear as something else, or even not be shown at all.

Yes I'm totally stupid. Now I see the orange dot. I just seen bold text and
number of messages unreaded and I thinked to an dot like the dot in message (in
a separate column).

Anyway, the problem is still present when the messages are filtered in a
subfolder. I don't see where e when there is new message.




> 
> Bug 202783 is about the failure to put a New flag on the destination *account* 
> (which would include "Local Folders") when a new message arrives in it; and 
> bug 116181 is (in part) about the original account getting flagged even if all 
> new messages have been filtered out of it.