Closed Bug 673881 Opened 14 years ago Closed 13 years ago

message gets marked as read when saving attachments (despite pref to not automatically mark as read)

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

6 Branch
x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 Build ID: 20110615151330 Steps to reproduce: Option "autmatically mark as read" is off. IMAP account, a message is visible in preview area, has some larger (2-3 MB) attachments. I select "save all" to download all the attachments. Actual results: After download of first attachment is complete, the message gets marked as read. Ca. 80% reproducable on my test machine. Seems a bit more likely for larger attachments. Expected results: The read/unread status of the message should not have changed. Please also see my comment 6 at Bug 546633 . I finally decided to report this in a new bug because this is definitely new in TB 5 (my users confirmed that it does NOT happen in TB 3.x). Bug 243117 seems related, but is definitly much older. Comment 5 there seems to point in a different direction (auto-marking switched off in my case). Bug 626845 might be somehow related, if that did not go into any 3.x release.
Severity: normal → major
OS: Other → Windows XP
Hardware: All → x86
Does TB sends a read flag in the imap log when this happens ( see https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging ) ?
(Sorry for delay, was on holiday) Please find a log at http://www.phipra.com/imap-log.rar That log was recorded with TB 6.0 (current release version). What I did: 1.) Click on an unread message, with size above 5MB 2.) Wait until message body is displayed in preview pane 3.) Unfold attachment area, save the first attachment (a pdf) 4.) Choose folder, confirm to overwrite file 5.) The download progress window appears (constantly showing 0 percent, while the progress bar at the bottom proceeds - odd, but not a problem). 6.) As soon as the download is completed (progress bar at 100%), the message gets marked as read. It should still be unread, according to my setting. It seems that the bug does not strike for smaller messages, where the download progress window does not appear. Hope this helps...
Version: 5.0 → 6
Unfortunately, still happens on Thunderbird release 8.0 Even trickier (lets name it "case b"): I noticed that sometimes the green "new/read" flag is not updated immediately. So, you do not even notice that the message has been erraneously marked as "read"! To make it clear what happens: 1) view a new (not "read") message in message view area, message has attachments (a few megabytes) 2) click "save all" attachments 3) Case a: message is marked as "read" 3) Case b: all seems OK, message is still new (unread) 4) go to another folder 5) go back to folder containing message from 1) --> the message ist marked as "read" So maybe the message is marked as read in any case, but I did not notice in some cases becase the message list was not refreshed...
Did not have time for extensive testing, but at a quick check I could not reproduce case a with TB 10!
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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