881614 - new indicator (Starbursts) beside freshly-delivered messages disappear after opening and closing mail in tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 596190

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[D Holzmman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

Check for new mail (using POP).  TBird marks freshly-delivered mail arriving in the inbox with starbursts.  Open any message listed in the inbox in a new tab, then close the message (close the tab the message is displayed in).  The starbursts shown in the inbox list disappear.


Actual results:

The starbursts indicating freshly-delivered (freshly-retrieved?) mail disappear too early.


Expected results:

What is desired is for the (asterisk-shapted) starburst next to each freshly-delivered message in the listing of messages in a folder to disappear NOT when the user opens and closes a message in that folder, but instead >>>when the user leaves that folder<<< by choosing another folder in the folder navigation pane, or by exiting the program.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The new indicators are there until you've viewed the folder and will be gone when you come back. Unfortunately due to bug 487386 opening in tab will "refresh" the view :/

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Ok it's only if one close the message too. So blaming bug 487386 was probably incorrect.