Closed Bug 306739 Opened 19 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Manually marking message as junk in "junk status" column causes read status to change several times

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: beltzner, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

To reproduce:
1. Mark any unread message as junk by clicking in the "junk status" column
2. Watch the read status (both the indicator and the font-face of the header)

Actual:
The status changes "unread" -> "read" -> "unread" -> read and then the message
is moved to the Junk folder. Because "unread" is boldface, this makes the header
"flash".

Expected:
The status changes from unread to read and the message is moved to the Junk folder.

This may be related to bug 220933 which enabled the behaviour to automatically
mark messages manually marked as junk to the Junk folder. Also note that it does
not happen when using any other manual mark as junk mechanism.
Not seeing this in MOZILLA_1_8 thunderbird 2005-08-30-10Z on linux gtk2
Oops, should've mentioned .. I've only tested this using: version 1.0+
(20050830) and (20050901) on w32.
IMAP or local msg?
Seems to only happen with IMAP accounts.
I see this only if both the source folder and the target Junk folder are on
IMAP; if either is local, not.
(In reply to comment #5)
> I see this only if both the source folder and the target Junk folder are on
> IMAP; if either is local, not.

I get the unread messages marked as "read" when tagged as junk in IMAP (remote) and POP (local) accounts.
My Junk folder is local.
I also experience this behaviour using Thunderbird (with a Windows XP system and an IMAP account) in that if I mark e-mails missed by Thunderbird as Junk the status will also change to read. Those marked by Thunderbird itself are shown as unread. Since general advice (by the supposed experts) is not to open Junk mail, then my choice would be to leave them marked as unopened. Since most Junk is readily identifiable, there is rarely any reason actually open and read them at all! I do not have Thunderbird set to automatically transfer Junk mail to "Deleted".
Another, possibly related, bug is that when e-mails marked as Junk in my "Inbox" are deleted (and moved to "Deleted") not all of those messages retain their Junk status.
QA Contact: front-end
Assignee: mscott → nobody
wfm

i use imap based accounts and just hit the "junk" column/icon of an unread message.
the message got moved instantly moved to the junk folder and i did not see any read/unread/read flashing.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090727 Shredder/3.0b4pre ID:20090727034746
On my Gmail account I saw the flickring with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090728 Shredder/3.0b4pre
Blocks: junktracker
as stated, i haven't seen this issue in a long time.
my guess would be that it is related to an update-imap-from-server method?

anyways, i would say "wfm"
more specifically,

"wfm" on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100127 Shredder/3.0.2pre
=> WFM based on multiple reports
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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