313056 - New mail indicator not promoted to superior (parent) folder (as is "unread" indication)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95193

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Bruce K. Haddon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908)

A small orange/red flag appears on the folder icon in the folders pane when 
there is new mail added or moved to the folder, and the folder has not been 
visited since that happened. But, if this folder is a member of another folder 
group, and the group is currently collapsed, this "new mail" indicator is not 
promoted to the containing (collapsed) folder (etc., to the top of the 
collapsed hierarchy).  This means new mail can be missed because the mail has 
been placed into a folder when the group is collapsed. Expanding the group to 
the correct level will show the "new mail" indicator, but having to do so 
defeats the advantages and purposes of collapsing folders (i.e., to save real 
estate within the folders pane).

The bolding indicating "unread" mail is promoted within collapsed folders--
the "new mail" indicator would be usefully promoted in the same way.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive new mail using a filter to move it to a folder in a collapsed group 
of folders.
2. Open the collapsed group to see the "new mail" indicator on the folder.
3. Note that this "new mail" indicator was not seen on the folder icon of the 
collapsed group, nor does it appear when the group is again collapsed.

Actual Results:  
See "steps to reproduce"

Expected Results:  
This is an RFE

Comment 1

[Matthias Firner]

I can confirm this bug; however, it seems to be a dupe of #95193.

Furthermore, if a message is filtered to a local folder, the inboxes' "new mail" indicator keeps being set, even though there is no new mail in this inbox.