66657 - Context menu for mail messages needs "mark read/unread"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Oliver Klee]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010125
BuildID:    2001012504

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on an email message.

Actual Results:  There's no "Mark (un)read" entry in the context menu.

Expected Results:  There should be, though ... =.->

Comment 1

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

Same here. I searched for dups but found none.
Marking as new.

Mozilla 2001012420 on Windows 2000 SP1 on PC.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I'm sure Ninoschka has this in one of her many filed 3 pane context menu bugs.

Comment 3

[Ninoschka Baca]

According to the spec "mark read/unread" are not included as items in the
context menu for messages. Let's use this bug to track this issue. 

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

I just created a new bug to track "mail message/context menu" issues (bug#
66707). How about if we move this issue to that bug?

I actually like the idea of having this feature. I frequently change the status
of a message from read to unread.

Comment 5

[jglick]

I just want to be sure we don't fall into the same trap as 4.x, huge context 
menus covering most of the functionality.   

Comment 6

[Ninoschka Baca]

I can go either way on this. If it's not included then I'll select the column
with the green star.

Comment 7

[Harald Glatt]

*** Bug 79096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 91574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Chase Tingley]

*** Bug 95448 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Harald Glatt]

guys, you really should do some advance in this because i just had to click
"next" in the toolbar 3000 times to mark all my imported mail as read :(

Comment 11

[Oliver Klee]

Harald, you can just mark all 3000 messages and then choose Message/Mark/As Read.

Comment 12

[Harald Glatt]

argh, thank you... i'm stupid ...

Comment 13

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 111506 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 114579 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Max Waterman]

I was going to add a new bug, but this one seems close enough. I'll let you decide.

At some point in the NS 4.X line, we lost the Message->Mark->AsUnread.

I used to use that alot - usually to correct mistakes. Like, for example, I
might mark all as read by mistake (slip of the mouse when going for 'ByDate'?),
and then mark them all as unread again and correct the mistake.

In the later NS 4.X, NS 6.X and mozilla, IIRC, this option has been removed.

Any chance of having it back again?

Platform is RH Linux 7.2 and SGI IRIX 6.5.15.

Max.

Comment 16

[Olga]

Many of us have different habits. I usually mark Unread with the green star. Any
way, it is mouse click. I guess, we can go either way.

Comment 17

[Peter Lockhart]

what is even easier is just highlighting the relevant message(s) and pressing 'm' :)

Comment 18

[Thomas Swan]

I don't think this is limited to windows 2000.  Perhaps teh OS needs to be
changed to All.

Comment 19

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Just want to clear everything up here. Mozilla really needs to have "Mark As
Read/Unread" in the context menu (e.g. when you right-click one or more messages).

Take a look at how Outlook Express does it. That's how it should look like and work.

Comment 20

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 119953 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 152141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 105953, Right-click on Thread in MailNews Should have "Mark Thread
as Read".

Comment 23

[James Ots]

Attachment: Patch to add the mark menu to the context menu

I produced this patch on the mozilla-1.2.1 code. If I've messed up and produced
it wrong please let me know nicely, because it's my first patch, and the nice
people on #mozilla said this is the way to do it!

Comment 24

[James Ots]

Attachment: Patch to add the mark menu to the context menu

I produced this patch on the mozilla-1.2.1 code. If I've messed up and produced
it wrong please let me know nicely, because it's my first patch, and the nice
people on #mozilla said this is the way to do it!

Comment 25

[René Rhéaume]

I successfully applied the patch on Mozilla 1.3b (2002031008). I did a quick
test on a POP3 folder and it works.

Comment 26

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 194649 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 27

[Berthold]

In the actual nightly version 2003032222 (Linux) the patch is not working or not
applied.

Comment 28

[Charles Lewis]

Mark read/unread still nowhere to be seen in context menu when right clicking on
an email, either in POP3 or IMAP. Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030308

Comment 29

[René Rhéaume]

Comments #27 and #28
The patch did not get the approval for checkin into Mozilla tree. You have to
wait for review+, super-review+ and approval+. For the moment, only a request
for review has been issued.

Comment 30

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

jan, didn't you fix this on the trunk recently?

Comment 31

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

Yes, I did

Comment 32

[Matevz Jekovec]

You can select messages and go on menu: message->mark->as read. That will do the
trick. Or better idea, you can select the messages and hit "m" key and all the
selected messages are marked being read. This is already implemented.
Messing with right mouse button is not a good idea IMO... I would leave
everything as it is now.

Comment 33

[Berthold]

In M$-Outlook this feature is available and I just want it in Mozilla, too.
When there is a useless "Label" and a "Print Preview" in that menu a new point
"Mark As" wouldn't disturb I think.

Comment 34

[James Ots]

Just to clarify: This patch (or at least, a patch like this patch) is now in the
source tree. So there's no need to argue about why it would be a good idea to
have it. It's already there.

Comment 35

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

over to nbaca to verify.

Comment 36

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

note to nbaca:

jan fixed this when he fixed

195312 - [junk] Context menus for Junk Mail Controls not implemented yet
183597 - Add/Move Message|Mark items for marking as Junk/Not Junk

so when you verify those, you can easily verify this.

(it should really be a dup, I guess.)

Comment 37

[Joe Infla]

*** Bug 193263 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***