388776 - Email in local subfolder spontaneously gets marked as 'unread'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 315069

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[David J. Marcus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

I clicked on a subfolder of a local folder that had no unread messages. Right after the click, the count of unread messages (in parenthesis after the subfolder name) changed on its own to 1. I located the email that was suddenly marked unread - it was an email I had sent myself in January of 2007 and I'm certain it was not new nor explicitly marked unread by me.

I've seen this happen a few times in the past but I wasn't paying enough attention. This time I was certain that prior to the click on the subfolder, the unread count was zero and after the click it turned to 1.

Am running TB 2.0.0.4 (20070604) on WIn/XP.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Not clear. I have many subfolders in the local folder. Happens rarely.
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Comment 1

[abe]

I have encountered similar problem on version 2.0.0.18 on an Windows XP machine.  The account has probably thousands of email, and ~50 subfolders under inbox.

What is strange is that it all the unread emails are on or before 10Aug2005. I have tried to remove all the .msf file and let thunderbird to regenerate the index, but this doesn't help.  Is the unread flag stored somewhere, so I could regenerate it?

Comment 2

[abe]

just found that my behavior is probably due to #315069 (mail imported from outlook return to unread status after rebuilding folder msf file).  The problem seems disappeared, will see how it goes.  Thanks

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter the issue is still present also with last release 2.0.0.22?

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUPing to Bug 315069 based on bug opener's comment #2.
abe(bug opener), re-open if DUPing is wrong, please.