347747 - Mail Notificator shows mail from unwanted folder.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 460279

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[paul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5

I have IMAP4 account with special folder subscribed. This is a folder to hold spam which is caugh by company spam detector. Mail to this folder is moved automatically using server-side sieve filter.
This folder is *not* market as "Check for new mail". When new mail arrives to INBOX, an alert is popped out filled with subjects from "Junk" mentioned above.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a imap folder F1, which is filled by a server
2. Wait for new mail in inbox


Actual Results:  
Popup with mail from F1 plus from INBOX

Expected Results:  
Popup with mail from INBOX (i.e. from folders which are marked as "Check this folder for new messages") only.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

If you ever look in that folder, TB by default will keep a connection to that folder using the "IDLE" mode, which also provides instantaneous notification of new mail (rather than every N minutes).  You can turn off IDLE via
  Account Settings | <account> | Server Settings | Advanced

I believe  that IDLE does not look in folders that you haven't manually looked in (or checked for new).

Comment 2

[paul]

But I want to be able to look into folder and don't see new mail notification from it.