569921 - BCC to self clutters New Mail Alert notifications

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Alessandro Vesely]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 GTB7.0 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4

The "Copies & Folders" / "Bcc these email addresses" option is a handy alternative to placing a copy in the Sent IMAP folder, as it avoids uploading each message twice. However, new messages arriving in the Sent folder are still tagged as new, and it becomes difficult to locate the interesting info in New Mail Alert popups when many sent messages are reported in there as well.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure the account to archive sent mail via a special BCC address,
2. Configure the mail server to place that mail in your Sent folder.
3. Send a message.
Actual Results:  
Sent messages are not tagged as seen. Notifications include them.

Expected Results:  
Since the Sent folder is flagged as such, it should not contribute unread messages. Whether or not sent messages are flagged \Seen on arrival, they shouldn't be actually counted as global unread messages, much like for the Junk folder.


I tried to set up a filter, in order to "Mark as Read" when the "Delivered-To" header field contains my BCC address. Although the filter is enabled, and should be applied when "Checking Mail or Manually Run", it only works if I manually run it. Don't filters run on subfolders?

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

rkent, does filtaquilla offer something to handle this?

bienvenu, is it possible to do anything about this in thunderbird that doesn't have unwanted negative effects.

Comment 2

[Kent James (:rkent)]

FiltaQuilla has a very minimal Do Not Notify which just works within the existing framework - and inherits all of its problems. It works sometimes but not reliably, but is better than nothing for a folder that gets a lot of unprocessed spam. What it does is this:

        var folder = aMsgHdrs.queryElementAt(0, Ci.nsIMsgDBHdr).folder;
        var numNewMessages = folder.getNumNewMessages(false);
        var hdrCount = aMsgHdrs.length;
        numNewMessages = numNewMessages - hdrCount;
        folder.setNumNewMessages(numNewMessages);

which I doubt solves anything.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(no longer remember who is keen on biff issues)

Protz, any thoughts?