Stuart Ballard wrote: > Bill Seurer wrote: > >>Is this a known problem? >> >>I'm seeing some weirdness with 0.9.9 where if I expand the list of >>newsgroups I am subcribed to it will show various ones having various >>numbers of new postings. If I then click on one of them the count of >>new postings will jump up or down a few sometimes. OK, so some new >>postings showed up or were deleted or something. However, when I go >>through the postings it will (sometimes) end up with either: >> >>1) There still appear to be new postings but there really aren't any >>more. I can't use next at this point. If I collapse and expand the >>newsgroup list the count will correct itself. >>2) The count decrements to zero but there ARE still new postings. I can >>next through them. > > > FWIW, that bug has somehow managed to persist through a complete rewrite > from 4.x. I still use 4.x for mail and news (due to some other, vaguely > similar problems with mozilla mail) and this bug is my most-hated 4.x > mailnews bug too. > > Don't know about moz, but for 4.x the usual case is that a message was > crossposted to multiple groups that you're subscribed to. If a single > new message is crossposted to groups A and B, and no other new messages > are posted to B, then after reading all the messages in A you will > "advance to next message in B" and there won't be any there. I can't > believe this bug managed to make it into Mozilla too. > > The other problem (which is the killer bug that keeps me away from moz > mailnews) is that Mozilla frequently tries to "advance to next new > message in" the wrong folder. If folder B already has new messages in > it, and I'm in my inbox, and a new message arrives in folder A (which is > listed *before* folder B), hitting "next" seems to usually want to > "advance to next message in B", rather than in A. This particularly > hurts in my case where B is debian-user, which I stay subscribed to in > case I ever need to post to it, but I never read, and it has 65,000 > messages in it. You don't want to *accidentally* trigger Mozilla to go > there... > > Adding n.p.m.mail-news, as maybe someone there knows what's up. > > Stuart. >
I think it maybe fixed since 0.9.9 was released.. if you want try a new nightly..
