357620 - "Mark All Read" changes message list sort to ascending by date (IMAP)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[darren.pilgrim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909)

I normally have my IMAP folders sorted ascending by subject, unread messages only.  When I press mark all messages as read, the message list sorting changes to ascending by date.  This behavior does not occur if the View is set to all messages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch to a folder not sorted ascending by date and with the View set to Unread.
2. Press Ctrl-Shift-C or otherwise mark all read.
3. Observe the message list sort changes to ascending by date.


Actual Results:  
The resultant behavior was as described in the Details section.

Expected Results:  
The sorting should not change if I mark all messages read.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Darren, do you still see this using version 2?

Comment 2

[darren.pilgrim]

Yes, the problem still occurs with version 2.0.0.9 (20071031).

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you have any extensions installed?
what happens if you start thunderbird in "safe mode"?

Comment 4

[darren.pilgrim]

Yes, I have the following extensions installed and enabled:

MessageFaces 1.1.2
Quote Colors 0.2.8
Talkback 2.0.0.9

If they count, I also have the following themes installed:

Azerty 'mail 3.0
Thunderbird (default) 2.0

I'm using the Azerty 'mail 3.0 theme.

The same behavior is observed with Thunderbird started with safe mode (no extensions).

Comment 5

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

removing Status Whiteboard message since reporter has provided more information. Now just requires someone else's confirmation.

Comment 6

[Chris Stevens]

Windows XP SP2, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (20080421)
Extensions(1): Talkback    Themes(1): Default

I have experienced this behavior for many versions.

Using Darren's reproduction steps, I observe the same actual results as reported in the description above. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357620#c0)

Comment 7

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter or Chris Stevens could you try to see if it still happens with
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ ?

Comment 8

[darren.pilgrim]

Yes, the problem is still present with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090923 Shredder/3.0pre.

Comment 9

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Confirmed per comment #8 and comment #6

Comment 10

[Ariel Poliak]

This is still happening on Daily 59.0a1 (2018-01-19).