thunderbird marks mail as read after a delete

[Matt LaPlante]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

2.0.0.8~pre071022+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10

I hate that I can't disable thunderbird marking mail as read, but that's an issue for mozilla to never get around to changing. Anyway, I currently have "Wait 60 seconds before marking messages as read" checked in Advanced>General prefs. (60 is the number I filled in). This seems to work fine when I manually select a message, however if I delete a message, it fails to keep the next message to be selected from being read.

- Have 2 unread messages in inbox
- Select the newest, hit Delete
- Tbird should remove this message, and select and display the next oldest message
- The newly selected message is immediately marked as read. Why? No idea.

[Jeldert (jeldert)]

Behaviour still present in 2.0.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

I'm marking this as a duplicate of a much later report, bug 1653351, which has not only been reported upstream but is also urrently being discussed there.