689141 - Provide a keyboard shortcut or a toolbar button to refresh the current message list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 341266

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[u88384]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0
Build ID: 20110916091512

Steps to reproduce:

I'm using the 'Unread Mail' view to read new messages and mark (some) messages as read.

Over time, the view becomes unusable (don't find a better word), since it shows a mix of read and unread messages.

AFAICS, there is no keyboard shortcut or toolbar button to quickly refresh the current view, e.g. 'Unread Mail' view in my case.

See also: http://gsfn.us/t/2g5tt


Actual results:

To refresh the view, I have to switch to a different folder, e.g. 'Inbox', then switch back to 'Unread Mail'.


Expected results:

There should be a keyboard shortcut (typically F5 on windows) or at least a toolbar button to quickly refresh the current view. I.e. for the 'Unread Mail' view to only show the remaining unread messages.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Martin from comment #0)
F5 is used to get new mail (refresh), it works for me:
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110929042316

Comment 2

[u88384]

F5 doesn't work for me. This is what happens:

- go to "Unread Mail"
- mark some mails as read, either by pressing "m" or by clicking the green bullet in the message list
- the read messages remain visible in the message list
- press F5 (there are no new mails)
- the list stays as before (i.e. still displaying the unread and the read mails)

In other words, mails marked as read never disappear from the message list, unless I switch to a different folder/view and then back to "Unread Mail".

Comment 3

[u88384]

BTW: instead of a keyboard shortcut or a toolbar button, an entry in the message list's context menu (Refresh) would also do.