994735 - Don't mark spam as read when they are moved in the Junk box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 352428

(Thunderbird :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Adam NEVERT]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140314220517

Steps to reproduce:

Mark a non read e-mail as junk


Actual results:

The e-mail was moved in the junk box and marked as read


Expected results:

The e-mail should be left is read or non-read state

Comment 1

[B.J. Herbison]

I believe the current behavior is by design. The behavior is very useful as it distinguishes messages marked as spam by the user (confirmed spam) with decisions made by the spam filter (probably but not confirmed spam).

Since I have lots of confirmed spam I would be very annoyed if I had to search all of it for false positives. (Especially recently, the filter got much worse with 31.1.1.)

If an enhancement was made in this area, I would propose using the filter mechanism. Create a filter run when a message is marked is spam manually and another when marked by the spam filter, and allow the user to edit the behavior of those filters.

Comment 2

[Adam NEVERT]

Hello,

Taking your comment in consideration I propose to add an option in the Edition > Preferences > Security > Junk tab:
> When I mark messages as Junk: > Move them to the account's "Junk" folder AND leave the read status
or add checkbox option
> Mark messages determined manually to be Junk as read [This option would be checked by default to keep the old behavior]

Thanks

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

another example confusing UI, which makes this bug a duplicate of bug 475914
mail.spam.markAsReadOnSpam                 is options | security | junk FOR bayesian automatic filtering
mailnews.ui.junk.manualMarkAsJunkMarksRead is hidden FOR manual marking, introduced by bug 306026, and you can use this to control what you mention in comment 0

avoiding the confusing UI is the goal of bug 352428