352080 - "Local Folders" still highlighted / blue / marked unread when unread messages deleted

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Brett Zamir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

If I delete the last unread message in a folder without first clicking on the message and waiting long enough so that it converts from unread to read status (i.e., nonbolded in the viewer window), the "Local Folders" folder icon will still remain blue (and thus the Thunderbird icon in the Mac's Dock (and application switcher) will also look as though there are new messages) will also still show as if "Local Folders" is still unread. This problem also occurs if a message filter has obtained and removed a message on its own.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Quickly delete the last unread message in a folder (or wait for a filter to do so)

Actual Results:  
"Local Folders" will be highlighted blue (and the Thunderbird icons within Mac's Dock and application switcher (hitting apple-tab to switch applications) will show as if Thunderbird still has unread messages).

Expected Results:  
"Local Folders" should not remain highlighted (and the Thunderbird icons mentioned above should appear as if no unread messages are remaining for the application.

I have marked the severity of this bug as "major", as this is the single most frustrating bug of Thunderbird for me, since I receive junk messages so frequently. I am really frustrated with having to either wait longer on an individual item to delete (often junk that I resent even looking at), or subsequently click on the blue "Local Folders" item or select "Get Mail", as all of these will change the unread status to read). Notification of whether new mail exists or not (without constant additional work) is, at lesat to me, quite a "major feature". Thank you all very kindly, by the way, for your helpful work on an otherwise useful product.

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 2

[Brett Zamir]

Very sorry but I'm no longer using a Mac. 

Comment 3

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Resolving incomplete based on comment #2.

Comment 4

[arxidiamidia]

This issue similar to Bug 272328 is now at Mozilla 12.0
(was not in 11.0) Platform is Windows 7 x64