launcher icon shows wrong number of new messages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The thunderbird launcher icon shows a seemingly-arbitrary number of unread messages. My inbox currently has 7 unread messages, and I have at least 500 unread messages in other folders according to the thunderbird UI. However the launcher icon currently shows there are 42 unread messages. The number in the launcher icon does fluctuate, and it usually decrements when I read a message. It's never been correct about the number of unread messages, though.
The Mail indicator in the panel also has a list of folders with unread messages, and a count of the number of unread messages in each of those folders. The unread counts in the indicator's listing are also inaccurate, and the sum of the unread messages in the indicator does not match the number of unread messages in the launcher icon.
Thunderbird is configured for a pair of IMAP accounts. Each account has a number of folders and subfolders.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: thunderbird-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 22 13:49:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (20 days ago)
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
It's not meant to show unread messages - but new messages - as per the spec: https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/MessagingMe nu#Recommended_ behavior_ for_e-mail_ clients
"For the purpose of the messaging menu, a new message is an unread message that the program discovered since the last time you (a) performed any action in that mailbox or (b) selected the corresponding item in the messaging menu."
So, navigating to a folder will mean that folder has no new messages anymore, and this is independent of unread messages.