- open news so you have a mix of read and unread messages in a newsgroup - select all the messages - click 'mark' in the toolbar Expected: - all should be marked as read Actual: - if the first message is unread (bold), all messages are marked as read. - if the first message is read (not bold), all messages are marked unread. this seems rather broken, as the action i always expect from that button is to mark things as read, regardless of what the first item I have selected is. i usually end up hitting the button twice to mark everything as read, which sorta defeats the purpose of having a convenient button. this has been around for a long time, i'm sure there's another bug on it.

jglick, any opinions on this?

I would agree with author. The default behavior of the button is "Mark as Read". So if any of the selected messages are Unread, I would expect it to mark them all Read.

This is still a problem with dec14 commercial trunk build Mac OS X. Seems to work okay on win98.

Somewhat related to this: Menu item Message/Mark/As Read seems to be inconsistent: 1. If multiple messagea are selected (some are read, some are not), only one state can be displayed (incorrectly) using the current checkmark implementation 2. What is the suggested way to mark messages unread (how I currently do it is mark them read and unread, and/or opposite)? Maybe there is to be a Mark As Unread and Mark As Read separate menuitems would be a better choice.

Hello, i would like to have such a "mark" button for my e-mails too. Often I know what people want to tell me and will mark their messages as read to be able to see next time what e-mails are really new then. regards, F. Obermaier

In 1.2.1, "Mark as Read" used the tree selection lead (tail) as toggle to set the state of all the rest of the messages. Since the reading order is top-to-bottom (as the "Next unread Message" button), when selecting a range, the last message is unread (due to the multiple selections) and the "M"-command then toggles all to read. This is what is expected. Since 1.3b it is using the tree selection anchor (head), which is wrong. It leads to having to click twice to get the messages marked as read. The first selection one is normally read, and the "M"-command then initially marks all "unread". This is inconsitent to the command and to prior implementation.

happens on Mac OS X also. Moving over since mac classic is no longer supported.

This is also true in Windows ME version Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916 I would agree with comment #2 that if Mark as read is used all should be marked as read. Rightg now it toggles depending on the first selected e-mail

This happens just the same way on Win2k. (and WinME according to comment above). -> all/all

*** Bug 218572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 251653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***