760022 - Status of read emails not set

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[didier.courtaud]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

I use Thunderbird with local files on a Unix box ( using Unix mailspool )

All my emails appear normally and new ones are highlighted.


Actual results:

When I read new emails, these  emails are no more highligted but I let them into my Inbox.

I click on the "Compact" button to compact my Inbox and I close Thunderbird.

When I reopen it, all the previously "new" emails are highlighted again as if they are really new !


Expected results:

Of course they should not be highlighted.

I looked at the Inbox file into a text editor ans see that effectively the "compact operation" has not set the "Status" flag for the read emails.

It seems that it works correctly for emails older than a day but not for emails of the same day

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Can you tell what the value of X-Mozilla-Status is in the source of a message that should be marked read (not new)?

Comment 2

[didier.courtaud]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #1)
> Can you tell what the value of X-Mozilla-Status is in the source of a
> message that should be marked read (not new)?

X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:

but no :

Status: RO

Comment 3

[:aceman]

And after you compact this same message gets shown as New? Can you then see the value of X-Mozilla-Status ?

Comment 4

[didier.courtaud]

I made some additionnal tests :

- If I do not compact the folder ( Inbox ) 
 
  I read new emails ( highlighted ) and close Thunderbird without compacting
  I look at the mailbox and do not see any X-Mozilla-Status flags ?
  I reopen Thunderbird and see all the "previously new" emails highlighted

- Now if I compact the folder before closing Thunderbird

  When I reopen Thunderbird, all the emails are there and NOT higlighted
  In the mailbox file they have the flags :

  X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
  X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000

OK !

But in any case , asmail that I use with Thunderbird says : "there are new emails" !

That is because it relies on the Status flag.

If I edit the mailbox and add by hand a line :

Status: RO

to all emails 

asmail works fine ans says : "There is no new email"

So it would be nice if the compact operation that adds the X-Mozilla-Status flags can also add the Status flag !

Comment 5

[:aceman]

I am not sure what "asmail" is and why would Tb add some "Status" header. I do not have such header if any of my messages (from POP3). Either it is some mail spool specific header or nonstandard.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

You're using movemail to get messages into your inbox? It sounds like that's not adding x-mozilla-status headers. Compact does add x-mozilla-status headers if they're missing.

Here's the code that should be adding x-mozilla-status headers for movemail: http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/local/src/nsMovemailService.cpp#469

it also sounds like the .msf file is getting rebuilt when you restart, which makes the lack of x-mozilla-status headers a bigger problem.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

didier, are you using movemail?

Comment 8

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard