If I remember correctly, it was only stated by David Bienvenu that his
checkin was "one cause" of the unread count bugs. There are probably 3
or 4 bugs that are still valid and remaining.
- stephend
Niko Pavlicek wrote:
> A few days ago, I remembered to read about a checkin which should
> solve the problems with the unread messages count, but perhaps I just
> misunderstood something. Anyway, the problem still exists and no, I
> don't want to claim "That's my favorite bug and a real mozilla 1.0
> blocker", but:
> I just don't understand how the counting actually works!
> * In the status bar it says e.g. 7 unread messages
> * when I switch to view only threads with "Unread" I get, e.g. 3
> threads with this green arrow in the thread icon, but if I open it,
> every single message is marked as read. If I understand correctly it
> does mean that in some file this thread or some messages in this
> thread is marked "UNREAD", but in some file all messages are
> individually markes "READ".
>
> Shouldn't the unread message count just be the total amount of single
> messages marked as read?
> In which files are these numbers stored?
> And why does Mozilla not revalidate the numbers every startup?
>
> Regards,
> Niko!
>
