Closed
Bug 43013
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
"Download Headers" dialog has wrong defaults
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
WONTFIX
M18
People
(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: sspitzer)
Details
In the "Download Headers" dialog the "Mark remaining..." checkbox should be on per default. It's in the downloadheaders.js where it says: markreadElement.checked = nntpServer.markOldRead; "nntpServer.markOldRead" is always false to my knowledge. At least it's not represented in the prefs. Perhaps it's missing in the globals prefs...?
Comment 1•24 years ago
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Reassiging to sspitzer. Why should it be on by default? Is it the most common action?
Assignee: putterman → sspitzer
Target Milestone: --- → M18
FYI, just for reference... 4.x didn't have mark remaiming headers read on by default.
QA Contact: lchiang → huang
Comment 3•24 years ago
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Nah. To have this pref on by default is dataloss -- minor, but dataloss all the same, because the record of what the user hasn't read will be permanently lost. The user should have to explicitly tell Mozilla that she won't ever want to read the other messages in the group.
Matthew Thomas: This is not data loss. The user may download the headers through Get Next N Messages. Even though the headers have been marked read and will have "read" status when retrieved, the user can still download them and look at the messages.
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Comment 5•24 years ago
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this pref is false by default, just like in 4.x as laurel pointed out. if the user changes the value in the download headers dialog, that change is remembered. (it's a per server pref.) note: we do migrate this pref, so if the user had "news.mark_old_read" set to true in 4.x, all the migrated news servers would have the "mail.server.<servern>.mark_old_read" pref set to true. marking wontfix, as we want the default value for this pref to be the same as 4.x. otherwise, people who migrate from 4.x will have the behaviour changed on them.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Comment 6•24 years ago
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Yes, we do the exact same thing as 4.x does which is our preferred behavior for this stuff. - rhp
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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