36385 - unread mail flag does not propagate from subfolders to closed parent folder

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19254

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Volker Schoech]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686)
BuildID:    2000041805

A closed folder containing subfolders which have unread mail does not indicate
this.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a multi level hierarchical folder structure
2. put a message marked "unread" into a subfolder; naturally, this happens with
filtering incoming messages.
3. close all folders, if they are still open

Actual Results:  The topmost folder provides no indication of the fact, that one
if its subfolders contains unread mail

Expected Results:  The "unread" mail flag should propagate, if the folder
containing the unread mail is not visible (because its parent folder is not
open). A folder containing unread messages or subfolders that contain unread
messages should be bold or should otherwise indicate that digging down the
folder structure is worthwhile.

This works all right in Netscape Mail on Win and Mac. It does not work in
Netscape on Linux. Therefore I assume that this problem might not occur with M15
on Mac or Win, but it does on Linux.

Comment 1

[laurel]

I believe this is a duplicate of bug #19254l

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

it is.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19254 ***

Comment 3

[fenella]

Mark it as a verified/dup.