359167 - Client always reads phantom letters from News server

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Arkady Belousov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; ru) Opera 9.02
Build Identifier: http://laotzu.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.7/win32/ru/Thunderbird%20Setup%201.5.0.7.exe

     I have account for news.openwatcom.org server. When I refresh account (F5 on account in left pane), then client always "loads" three _additional_ (fictive) letters, even if there was no new posts there.

     I suggest, this is because some problem with TB bases. Some time ago on this server was happen crash and was losted some amount of last posts, and new posts numbering restarted from middle of this sequence. I was forced to remove *.msf (index) files to force refreshing in TB. I suggest, this not helps for TB and there remains some bug in bases.

     How to fix this issue? I not wish to resubscribe and lost all information about already readed messages, as this happen previous time with removin .msf files.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Arkady Belousov]

TB 1.5.0.8: not fixed

Comment 2

[Arkady Belousov]

     Oops, after more carefully reading message in status line (which are hard to read and gone fast), I now see, that there sayed about number of currently processed _group_ ("in conference 1 from 3"), not _letters_, so this may report is wrong. But, unfortunately, it caused by bad readability in status line (small font; numbers instead group names; status line cleared after account processing) and missing logging system. :(