376885 - Manually marking a message as junk also marks it as read

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 352428

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Tom Conder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.10 (20070221)

Whenever you mark a message as junk using right-click, it also marked as read even though it hasn't been read.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on mail item and Mark > As Junk
2. See that while it is marked as junk it is also marked as read

Actual Results:  
The message is marked as junk AND as read

Expected Results:  
The message should simply be marked as junk. It's read/unread status should not change.

The application used to behave correctly many releases ago.

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

i guess this is changed in Thunderbird 2. You can find the RC of thunderbird 2 here http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.0rc1/ if you want to try out that.

Comment 2

[Tom Conder]

Negative. Thunderbird 2 RC 1 exhibits this behavior too.

Comment 3

[Karsten Düsterloh]

The mark-as-read behaviour is governed by two preferences:

mail.spam.markAsReadOnSpam (default: false) controls whether messages filtered as junk automatically will be marked as read.

mailnews.ui.junk.manualMarkAsJunkMarksRead (default: true) controls whether messages set as junk manually (click, context menu) will be marked as read.

Comment 4

[Tom Conder]

In Thunderbird 2 I wasn't able to find the preference: mail.spam.markAsReadOnSpam

I did find these:

1) mail.server.default.markAsReadOnSpam defaults to false
2) mailnews.ui.junk.firstuse defaults to true

I set the #1 value to false and the #2 value to false. There was no change. That is, Thunderbird still marked the messages as read when I manually set it to junk using right-click. 

Email is on an IMAP server. Make a difference?

Comment 5

[Karsten Düsterloh]

> In Thunderbird 2 I wasn't able to find the preference:
> mail.spam.markAsReadOnSpam

This pref can be set in the UI on the privacy tab ("[ ] Mark messages determined to be Junk as read"). If your config editor does not show one of the prefs I mentioned, you have to create it with type "boolean".

> 1) mail.server.default.markAsReadOnSpam defaults to false

That's an old TB 1.5 setting which is not used anymore. TB 2 should have converted it into mail.spam.markAsReadOnSpam, though...

> 2) mailnews.ui.junk.firstuse defaults to true

This pref is irrelevant here.

> Email is on an IMAP server. Make a difference?

No. 

[Xref: bug 377920]

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Tom, what is your status after reviewing comment 5?

Comment 7

[ovidiu]

This may be a common case of being misguided by the "split in two" options of junk, in "acc settings" and in "options/privacy". 
Bug 352428

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

may as well dupe