Bug 688426

Summary:	Messages Not Being Marked as Read
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Le Sage <dlesage>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	bugzilla-redhat, lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha
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Description David Le Sage 2011-03-17 00:56:16 UTC

Description of problem:
Messages are not being marked as read.  If I select a new message in my inbox for a reasonable length of time or even if I open it in its own window, the message's status never changes to read.  The only way to change it is to right-click and select "Mark as Read" manually.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.91.91-1.fc15.x86_64


How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a new message from the inbox.  It should be marked as read after a few seconds.
2. Double-click the message to open it in its own window.  Its status still does not automatically change to "read."

  
Actual results:
Status does not change to read.

Expected results:
Should be marked as read after either of these actions.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Teraya 2011-06-01 22:21:34 UTC

I'm having the exact same issue with evolution 3.0.1 in the 32-bit Fedora 15 distro.  

[root@toreador ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)

[root@toreador ~]# uname -a
Linux toreador 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 #1 SMP Sun May 15 17:57:13 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@toreador ~]# rpm -qa \*evolution\* | sort
evolution-3.0.1-1.fc15.i686
evolution-data-server-3.0.1-1.fc15.i686
evolution-exchange-3.0.1-1.fc15.i686
evolution-help-3.0.1-1.fc15.noarch
evolution-mapi-3.0.1-2.fc15.i686
evolution-NetworkManager-3.0.1-1.fc15.i686
evolution-perl-3.0.1-1.fc15.i686
evolution-pst-3.0.1-1.fc15.i686
evolution-rspam-0.2.0-1.fc15.i686
evolution-rss-0.2.90-22.20110424git.fc15.i686
evolution-sharp-0.21.1-12.fc15.i686
pidgin-evolution-2.7.11-2.fc15.i686

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2011-06-02 06:46:14 UTC

Thanks for a bug report. Is this dependant on the account type you see this in, please? Say, it does work properly when trying under On This Computer folders, but does not when trying under IMAP folders? (Or any other account types.)

Also, what is the timeout for an automatic message mark as read? There used to be an option for it in Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences, but someone decided to drop it, with no replacement. What a bad idea :(

Please run gconf-editor and go to
   /apps/evolution/mail/display
and check whether the option 'mark_seen' is checked and what value is in 'mark_seen_timeout' key. I have it checked and the value is 1500, which means that a message should be selected for about a second and half before it gets marked read automatically.

There is one exception in mark-seen, when the new message is selected by evolution on a folder select in cases when the folder is chosen for the first time, but that might not be related here, I believe.

Comment 3 Teraya 2011-06-02 16:17:43 UTC

Thanks for the response.  I did some additional testing per your suggestions and have the results below.  

I have confirmed the issue happens the same in these different account types...
* mapi
* spool (mbox file)
* local (aka "On This Computer")

I verified that 'mark_seen' is -not- checked.  

If I -do- check it, messages do indeed get marked "read" when viewing in a preview pane or double-clicking to open in a separate window (the 'mark_seen' option functions as it should).  

However, that's not the option/functionality I'm looking for here.  It is not desirable that messages get marked "read" (such as in a preview pane) unless I have actually double-clicked to open them in a full separate window.  

Previous functionality in evolution was that if 'mark_seen' was -not- checked, then messages would only be marked "read" when double-clicked to open them in a full separate window.  

Double-clicking a message has previously always marked it as "read", regardless of the 'mark_seen' option setting.

Comment 4 Milan Crha 2011-06-03 06:37:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Double-clicking a message has previously always marked it as "read",
> regardless of the 'mark_seen' option setting.

Oh, I see, I'm sorry for my initial misunderstanding of the bug description.

I can confirm this behaviour, double-clicking the message doesn't mark it as read when mark_seen is not checked. I'm moving this upstream, because this doesn't seem to be fedora specific issue. Please see [1] for any further updates.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651761