36538 - 'mark newsgroup read' and 'message|mark|all read'

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[justin hugh daly]

shouldn't these two items have the same functionality? why is the contextual
menu for 'mark newsgroup read' greyed out when you can perform this from the
message menu?

this is from today's nightly build (20-apr-2000)

Comment 1

[laurel]

Mark newsgroup read (context menu) was in 4.x and was a quick way of marking all
the newsgroup read without having to open the group and download new headers
(some newsgroups have quite the throughput).  The main menu item for mark all
read is operational for mail or news after you've opened a folder or group.

I'd have to reread our specs, but I believe we intend to keep the two different
items in this product.

Comment 2

[fenella]

QA-assigned to myself.

Comment 3

[selmer (gone)]

Target M17.

Comment 4

[selmer (gone)]

Jennifer,Laurel, is this bug invalid?

Comment 5

[jglick]

The context menu item "Mark newsgroup read" and the Menu item "Message|Mark|All 
read" do appear to have the same end result.

When you select a newsgroup, the product automatically attempts to open 
the newsgroup and download all the headers. Maybe the context menu item allows 
you stop that process and mark all messages as read?

We will still have both these menu items in SeaMonkey.  As for why the context 
menu item isn't working yet and the menu item is, I'm not sure, but I'm sure 
this will be fixed eventually.

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone. We don't currently have the ability to select a 
folder and not download messages.

Comment 7

[timeless]

Putterman please file a blocking bug for 'select a 
folder and not download messages.'

Comment 8

[selmer (gone)]

Accepting to get out of bugzilla nag mail.

Comment 9

[Peter Wilson]

This is still not working consistently on RC2. 
If you display one newsgroup and then use the context menu on another newsgroup
the mark newsgroup read has no effect. 
I also have one newsgroup where the unread count has become stuck at (20)
irrespective of the number of unread messages. If you mark this newgroup read
the count disappears - only to reappear again later (even when there are no
unread messages).

Comment 10

[Jean-Pierre Melkonian]

My contextual menu is correct, but the Mark button is disabled
Mac OS9.1 Build:2002061103

Comment 11

[Stefan Borggraefe]

This got fixed somehow. The context menu item is now always available when the
corresponding menu item in the message menu is available. "Mark newsgroup read"
works like Jennifer suggested in comment #5.

The issue raised in comment #10 is bug 65263.

Marking WORKSFORME.

Comment 12

[Stewart Gordon]

I can see two different functionalities making sense:

(a) to mark all currently downloaded headers as read
(b) to mark everything currently on the newsgroup as read, even headers that haven't 
been downloaded

But if this is by design, the terminology ought to be clear in this respect.