"W" (watch thread) does not function

[Sam Vilain]

Apparently the "W" key should "watch thread" in Mozilla Thunderbird. However, this functionality seems to be disabled in the version in Ubuntu.

The menu item "View->Threads->Watched Threads With Unread" needs to be similarly disabled, or the functionality to watch a thread returned.

Apologies if this is a duplicate bug, I reported another via reportbug as I couldn't initially find mozilla-thunderbird via launchpad.ubuntu.com

[kmaglione (maglione-k)]

I think, maybe, that this should be two bug reports:
One, a feature request to watch threads in e-mails.
Two, a bug report for giving the option to sort e-mail by watched threads, but
not giving the option to watch e-mail threads.

[Bugzilla-rvanderhoff (bugzilla-rvanderhoff)]

This is a duplicate of bug #179033 I think.

[Bienvenu (bienvenu)]

As it happens, that bug is for the suite and this bug is for Thunderbird - and
this is purely a front end bug.

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[Sam Vilain (sam-vilain)]

Apparently the "W" key should "watch thread" in Mozilla Thunderbird. However, this functionality seems to be disabled in the version in Ubuntu.

The menu item "View->Threads->Watched Threads With Unread" needs to be similarly disabled, or the functionality to watch a thread returned.

Apologies if this is a duplicate bug, I reported another via reportbug as I couldn't initially find mozilla-thunderbird via launchpad.ubuntu.com

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

Just to check, you do realise that this menu item doesn't actually do anything for email, only news?

There is a debian bug for it appearing when it shouldn't iirc.

[Sam Vilain (sam-vilain)]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 07:56 +0000, Dean Sas wrote:
> Just to check, you do realise that this menu item doesn't actually do anything for email, only news?
>
> There is a debian bug for it appearing when it shouldn't iirc.
>
> ** Changed in: mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

Thanks for getting back to me.

As I mention in the initial report, either the menu option to select
showing "watched threads only" should be greyed when looking at non-nntp
folders (does the nntp server record watched threads for you? never
really looked into nntp protocol), or the functionality should be
extended in some way such that this can work for mailing lists too.

Actually ideally I'd like a thread scoring system (#38988). And a pony.

Sam.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

The upstream bug has been open 18months upstream.

Also of possible interest, is the same bug in seamonkey - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179033 open 3.5 years.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

This bug has been reported in launchpad (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/32177)

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

The mozilla menu reference suggests that there should be a 'Watch thread' entry in the Message menu, which is missing in the Ubuntu version (Gutsy also). See: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/menu#messagewatchthread

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

Right, it seems they remove the Message->Watch thread menu item when looking at non-NNTP folders and not updated their documentation to explain this.

They have not removed the "View->Threads->Watched Threads with unread" menu item under the same set of circumstances.

[Joshua Cranmer (jcranmer)]

Seems simple enough to fix.

[Kristian Rink (kawazu)]

Disturbing to see such a feature missing in Thunderbird - is no one using this application for mailing lists? ;) Anyway, is there a known workaround to "emulate" this feature while this one's still open?

[Joshua Cranmer (jcranmer)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Disturbing to see such a feature missing in Thunderbird - is no one using this
> application for mailing lists? ;) Anyway, is there a known workaround to
> "emulate" this feature while this one's still open?

It is possible to "emulate" this feature for filtering by manually editing the actual filter file (e.g., msgFilterRules.dat).

[Kristian Rink (kawazu)]

msgFilterRules.dat - How? Is that documented anywhere, or are there even examples out there?

[Mkmelin+mozilla (mkmelin+mozilla)]

Kristian: I guess doing one for news, and following example.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179033 ***

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

The main issue, which is that we had a menu item with a corresponding keyboard shortcut that didn't do anything in mail mode (as opposed to news mode). The menu entry has been removed resolving the original bug.

There is still a comparatively minor issue of the superfluous "View->Threads->Watched Threads with unread" menu entry. However, it's not technically wrong - you just get zero results in this mode as expected. If you feel it's an issue, please file a bug upstream - we would follow them in this case.