New email count in top bar and on Thunderbird Unity icon is not updated when mail status changes

[stippi]

When the entry for the new mail (there may be multiple entries per each mail folder with new email) is clicked, then Thunderbird is opened with that folder. In that moment, both the Unity Thunderbird icon overlay and the top bar entry are updated to the actual count of new emails. However, when I just use Thunderbird to read email, the icon overlay and top bar are not updated. They always reflect the number of new mails since either the start of the session, or since I last clicked the top bar menu entry.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Ejsing-Duun (zilvador)]

I parrtially have the same problem. The mail count usually does upgrade correct, but during the day the counter is stuck at a certain lower limit of 'unread emails'. When I receive a new email, it will count up, and when I read it, it counts down again, but it doesn't go below the limit (usually reaches 4-5 mails during the day). It can be influenced by mails caught by filters and marked as unread when received, but I cannot confirm this.

[jokrebel (jokrebel)]

Having Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha with Unity. Some Days ago there was a count in the Unity-Thunderbird-Icon on the left which showed the number of unread messages. Had been very nice! But now it's gone. I'm very sad of that. Hope you are able to understand my bad english. And thanks for the grate job!