627329 - message viewed in preview pane is not marked as read (new message arrives while viewing)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 537600

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Lisken]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7

I've just experienced this and just don't want the observation to be lost. Sorry if this wastes developers' time. What I did was this:


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Viewed a message in the preview pane, the message is within a plain folder (not Inbox) under Local Folders that is sorted by date, descending, threaded. A filter sorts incoming messages into that folder. Thunderbird is set to automatically messages as read after displaying for 2 seconds.

2. Very soon after viewing the message, Thunderbird polled the POP account that has the filter mentioned above, and a message is filtered into the folder.

3. I did not change to the new message or do anything other than continue reading the message that was displayed.

Actual Results:  
The "unread" mark next to the message did not disappear after 2 seconds.


I don't actually know if the arrival of that other message was a cause for this, but I don't normally have problems with Thunderbird marking messages as read after 2 seconds.