391173 - News displays unread count, but there is nothing new

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 79130

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Mills [:thunder]]

I often have this:

Mozilla News
* m.d.a.firefox(5)
* m.d.a.platform(202)

But when I click on them, the unread count clears out immediately and I can see that there are in fact no new articles to read.

If I then "get new mail" on all accounts, the unread counts will stay at 0.  But after a while, they will go back to showing 5 and 202, respectively.

If there *are* new articles, they will be added to those counts.  e.g., if I have 1 new article to read on m.d.a.firefox, its unread count will say (6) before I click on it, and (1) as soon as I click on the folder.

Only those two newsgroups seem to have this problem for me.  I've gotten used to doing a little math to know if I have new news in them ;-)

On Scott's suggestion, I tried going to the properties and rebuilding the index for one of them.  No change.

I see this bug using Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 as well as on the trunk (using the same profile).  I haven't tried to reproduce it on a new profile, but I can reproduce on mine without a problem (modulo the wait time for it to happen on its own).

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

See dependency tree for meta bug 71728. You can find already reported bugs which are candidates of DUPing.

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

So-called "phantom message problem." Therefore, dupe of 79130, to be exact.