675526 - Folderpane ignores new News articles

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[wertstoffe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100505 Iceweasel/3.6.4 (like Firefox/3.6.4) Mnenhy/0.8.3
Build ID: 20100501092804

Steps to reproduce:

I want to see new messages in the folderpane for news-accounts.

The Problem is in Linux AND Windows the same


Actual results:

It is a Problem, wich i have in Icedove since many versions and years. I have the same Problem with Thunderbird and on Windows... 

The Problem is only in the Newsgroup-Section in the Folderpane. Mail and RSS are working correct. 

When a new Message in a newsgroup arrives, there should be a signalisation in the newsgroup. Another icon, another fontcolor or something similar. I
repeate, this works with mails and RSS-feeds. With newsgroups it workes only a short time, then there is only the signalisation of read/unread
messages. 

I tried this on my old profile, i tried this on my new profile, i tried this on linux, i tried it on windows, i tried it with iceweasel and
thunderbird... after a while or some restarts of the mailclient, it forgets to show new messages in newsgroups. 

My newsserver is localhost. I have a local leafnode for a few different news-accounts on different news-servers. 

With CSS-Selector from the add-on Mail-Tweak i can see the propertys of the Elements. So i have the situation, that there is in a newsgroup a new
Message with the propertys
Type: treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text
Properties:
(unread)
(new)
(news)
(news)

The folderpane for this newsgroup has:
Type: treechildren::-moz-tree-cell
Properties:
(folderNameCol)
(hasUnreadMessages-true)
(serverType-nntp)
(specialFolder-none)
(biffState-NoMail)
(isSecure-false)
(noSelect-false)
(imapShared-false)
(account-news.localhost)
(name-at.test)

You can see, (newMessages-true) is missing, but there is on the same time a new message with the propertie (new) in this newsgroup.

So i tried a new profile. It works a few times, then the habit is the same as described.
I tried to delete the news-directory. Same habit. I can see new messages a few times, then habit like described.
I tried to delete only the newsrc-localhost: I have to readd the account and the newsgroups. After that, no signalisation of new messages.
I deleted the *.msf-files. The same. 
I deleted the *.dat-files. The same.
I deleted the *.msf- AND *.dat files. Same habit.
I deleted the *.msf- *.dat and the newsrc-file. New messages are shown in the folderpane. But only a few times.

When CSS-Selector shows the newMessage-true property, the icon and fontcolor changes, like it should do. So i think there is a wrong counting of new
Messages in Newsgroups. Or icedove stops counting new messages after a while or in case of strange settings somewhere else, or it reaches a count and
stops then... Or something strange else. 

I can reproduce this habit here on my machine again and again. It´s independend of other addons. I tried this. All add-ons deactivated, all add-ons
deinstalled. Totally new Profile... And all variants. Always the same habit. It shows new messages only a few times, then only read/unread messages.
That´s all. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages icedove depends on:
ii  debianutils            3.4               Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig             2.8.0-2.1         generic font configuration library
ii  libasound2             1.0.23-2.1        shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.30.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-10         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2              1.8.10-6          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.24-4          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.8.0-2.1         generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.4.2-2.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.5-8         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.20.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62              6b1-1             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d            4.8.6-1           NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d             3.12.8-1+squeeze1 Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.44-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libsqlite3-0           3.7.3-1           SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.10-1            library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.5-8           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.3.3-4         X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.6-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.7-1         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  psmisc                 22.11-1           utilities that use the proc file s
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages icedove recommends:
ii  hunspell-de-at-frami [hunsp 1:3.2.1-2    Austrian (German) dictionary for h
ii  hunspell-en-us [hunspell-di 20070829-4   English_american dictionary for hu
ii  myspell-de-de [myspell-dict 20091006-4.2 German dictionary for myspell

Versions of packages icedove suggests:
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.88-2.1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.28.1-6     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.30.0-1     The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.24.3-1   GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2            1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  ttf-lyx                     1.6.7-1      TrueType versions of some TeX font

Comment 1

[wertstoffe]

Debian GNU/Linux (x86_64) AND Windows XP (i386)

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Do you have the issue without the mailtweak extension ?

Comment 3

[wertstoffe]

I wrote, with and without extension... On windows and on linux. everywhere the same... ;-)

Comment 4

[wertstoffe]

Now is Version 8, and the Problem still exists...

Comment 5

[wertstoffe]

The Problem seems to be partially solved. If i install a filter on the server, the attribut newMessages-true comes to the folderpane, and new messages are signaled there. 
It doesn´t matter which filter, but it is necessary to install any filter.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

wertstoffe, do you still see this issue when using a current version?
Similar issues for me no longer occur

Comment 7

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard