Bug 587925 - Newsgroup Unread message count and handling is broken
Summary: Newsgroup Unread message count and handling is broken
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thunderbird
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-01 15:35 UTC by Keith G. Robertson-Turner
Modified: 2010-12-03 15:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-12-03 15:13:48 UTC
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Description Keith G. Robertson-Turner 2010-05-01 15:35:00 UTC
Description of problem:
The unread message count, printed next to the group name, bears no relation to the actual number of unread messages. Also, when opening the group and selecting view unread threads, threads which contain no unread messages are displayed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-3.0.4-1.fc12.i686

How reproducible: Always
Launch thunderbird and view the unread message count for any newsgroup, then open the group and view unread threads, to see a marked discrepancy.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install thunderbird
2. Add newsgroup account and a group with a large number of articles
3. Continue to use thunderbird for a few days
  
Actual results:
Eventually the unread message count starts to bear no relation to the actual number of unread messages, and viewing "unread threads" also shows entire threads with no unread messages.

Expected results:
Thunderbird should handle unread message counts and threads properly

Additional info:
The unread message count issue is years old (upstream), but this problem with completely read threads being displayed when choosing to view unread threads is new.

Comment 1 Sebastian Krämer 2010-11-03 13:41:18 UTC
I've seen this too for quite some time now (and several TB versions)..

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 15:54:00 UTC
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Comment 3 Sebastian Krämer 2010-11-04 09:31:28 UTC
It's still an issue with TB 3.1.6 (F14).
Please increase the version number to 14.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 15:13:48 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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