62519 - Answered flags should be immediately visible in the UI, after Answered flags was set during the append command

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

If you answeer a mail on a IMAP server mozilla first appends the mail to the 
"send" folder and then sets the Answered flags. Since the append command can 
take some time, it could be nice it the flags setting was performed before the 
append command.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

sounds cool. I doubt we get t this for a while though.

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

Actually the set flags command is sent before the append command. Couldn't we
just update the "Status" column right after the set flags command. The append
command could take very long time to succed.
How is the Status column updated?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

similar to another bug, or no longer exists?

Comment 4

[gene smith]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)

similar to another bug, or no longer exists?

(In reply to Henrik Gemal from comment #2)

Actually the set flags command is sent before the append command. Couldn't we
just update the "Status" column right after the set flags command. The append
command could take very long time to succed.
How is the Status column updated?

Yes, he's right the \answered flag is set on the replied-to message before the sent message is appended to Sent mailbox. But I'm not sure what the actual bug is here. Maybe he is saying that the replied-to "back-arrow" icon is not visible on the original message until the message is sent and appended to Sent folder which might take a while on a slow network? I'm not aware of complaints about this or similar bugs being reported.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Maybe he is saying that the replied-to "back-arrow" icon is not visible on the original message until the message is sent and appended to Sent folder which might take a while on a slow network?

Yes. In which case it doesn't seem this would be an imap bug.