523164 - Unified folders view confused on some subfolders (upgrading tb 2 - 3)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[ovidiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091016 Shredder/3.0pre

[upgraded by simply using TB3 beta 4 as well as current nightlie over same old TB2 profile, pop, gmails, rss, news]

the main pop mail acc has sent and received in inbox and several subfolders under inbox, for example bugs one to collect all bugzilla and connected (i/o)

These subfolders are:
* Not present under "Smart inbox" or subsequent
* Are present under "Smart sent" but contain both i/o msg, complete folder ...
Top smart inbox does not even show respective incoming msg (ex bugs ...)

not so smart;)

Comment 1

[ovidiu]

Attachment: subfolders not correctly outsmarted ...

note: could it also be related to other weird things related to gloda indexing and finding these subfolders? (other bugs to file ..)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

ovidiu, still ssee this?

Comment 3

[ovidiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 ID:20100227143138

yes. The smart folders tree is the same as above attach picture ever since.

There are basically 2 issues here:
-I do not use smart inbox cause I have subfolders with filters and would miss those incoming msg. I made my own s-searches for this "mega inbox".
-It is intriguing to see those folders under smart sent (with incoming msg) for the account that has has sent msg also going in the same inbox(!).

-serdan acc, (set to place sent msg under inbox too):
under inbox, serdan acc, no other subfolders
under sent, serdan acc, folders with incoming, i.e. bugzilla msg
-gmail (usual settings, some filters for subfolders)
under inbox, gmail acc, no other subfolders
under sent, gmail acc, no other subfolders


Cannot say if the problem was only in the original upgrade moment and just keep a wrong schema from that moment or it's persistent. Have to repro the whole upgrade moment over a backup of the profile to see.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> Cannot say if the problem was only in the original upgrade moment and just keep
> a wrong schema from that moment or it's persistent. Have to repro the whole
> upgrade moment over a backup of the profile to see.

If you can reproduce from upgraded backup profile, please cc: roland@mozillamessaging and _tsk_

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

other than trying v3.1 I'm not sure where to go with this.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

 ovidiu if you no longer see this please close WORKSFORME

Comment 7

[ovidiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1 - Build ID: 20100608023648

it has nothing to do with the old profile as far as I can see as I tried a brand new one. Have to change in the title of bug and dep migration bug 

This bug could be:

Subfolders of Inbox NOT shown under Unified (Smart) Inbox while subfolders of sent, archives etc show correctly

And derived:
Unified (Smart) folders Inbox Sent Archive behave different in checking what new subfolders they search (manual vs auto)


0. Have several accounts.
 -On a Pop account:
1. acc settings - Copies and folders - When sending/ Place a copy in / Other:
select the respective Inbox
2. create a subfolder of Inbox (Inbox /xxx) 
3. Look into Unified folders Mode to see:

Inbox 
- Inbox acc1
- Inbox acc2 (the respective Pop)

Sent
- Sent acc1
- Inbox acc2 (the respective Pop)
   -xxx (the respective subfolder of inbox)

4. plus ... make a filter for msg to move in folder Inbox/xxx
5. get such msg and see
6. Unified inbox clean , the subfolder under sent has new mail. Ha

Conclusion:
*I see there is no upgrade issue
*Subfolders of sent appear under SmartSent/sent foe each account as you create them, Not the case for inbox. I bet it's the opposite the people most use.
Still have to manually check them for Unified Sent to see them.
*You have to go to properties and *manually* check folders to be included in the very unified top Inbox to make it worth. I hate the word "manually" here

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duplicate of another bug [1]? 
or vice versa?

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&resolution=---&type0-0-0=nowords&value0-0-0=count%20counts&product=MailNews%20Core&product=Thunderbird&short_desc=unified%20subfold&list_id=2599716

Comment 9

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to ovidiu from comment #7)
> brand new one. Have to change in the title of bug and dep migration bug 
> 
> This bug could be:
> Subfolders of Inbox NOT shown under Unified (Smart) Inbox while subfolders
> of sent, archives etc show correctly

That inconsistency is filed as bug 516367

Comment 10

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This bug covers several things, not very actionable.
I think we need to dissect this, identify duplicate parts and file followups as required, then close.

(In reply to ovidiu from comment #7)
> This bug could be:
> 
> Subfolders of Inbox NOT shown under Unified (Smart) Inbox while subfolders
> of sent, archives etc show correctly

That part is a duplicate of bug 516367.

> And derived:
> Unified (Smart) folders Inbox Sent Archive behave different in checking what
> new subfolders they search (manual vs auto)
[...]
> Still have to manually check them for Unified Sent to see them.
> *You have to go to properties and *manually* check folders to be included in
> the very unified top Inbox to make it worth. I hate the word "manually" here

That's conceptually similar to bug 516445, although bug 516445 does not make explicit reference to this problem. Fixing bug 516367 (sic) would probably make this problem go away.

> Sent
> - Sent acc1
> - Inbox acc2 (the respective Pop)
>    -xxx (the respective subfolder of inbox)
>
> 4. plus ... make a filter for msg to move in folder Inbox/xxx
> 5. get such msg and see
> 6. Unified inbox clean , the subfolder under sent has new mail. Ha

I don't fully understand this part, but it seems to include an unwarranted mix-up of subfolders between inbox and sent. If such confusion actually occurs, I think it should be filed as a new, separate bug.