I'm reading blogs through RSS in Thunderbird. I normally read the most interesting articles and then I press "C" to call "Mark Read by Date". Since version 78b2 (maybe b1) the mark as read doesn't work anymore. I still get the dialog to enter the two dates it won't mark the messages anymore. I normally just enter the "to date".

Additionally: clicking "Shift + C" (mark all as read) is still working.

Seems to be working for me on trunk. The prefilled to date seems to be yesterdays date, but after I change that to today the messages from today were marked as read.

I see the following error in the error console after trying to mark by date:

Uncaught 
Exception
​
columnNumber: 0
​
data: null
​
filename: "chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js"
​
lineNumber: 121
​
location: XPCWrappedNative_NoHelper { QueryInterface: QueryInterface(), filename: Getter, name: Getter, … }
​
message: "Failure arg 0 [nsIMsgFolder.markMessagesRead]"
​
name: "NS_ERROR_FAILURE"
​
result: 2147500037
​
stack: "markInDatabase@chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js:121:19\nonAccept@chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js:63:17\n_fireButtonEvent@chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:487:19\n_doButtonCommand@chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:466:29\n_handleButtonCommand@chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:460:19\nMsgMarkReadByDate@chrome://messenger/content/mailWindowOverlay.js:2463:10\ndoCommand@chrome://messenger/content/mail3PaneWindowCommands.js:956:9\ndoCommand@chrome://messenger/content/mailTabs.js:844:23\ndoCommand@chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.js:564:27\ngoDoCommand@chrome://global/content/globalOverlay.js:101:18\noncommand@chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml:1:12\n"
​
<prototype>: ExceptionPrototype { toString: toString(), name: Getter, message: Getter, … }
markByDate.js:121

Can you clarify the steps to reproduce?

(Note to self, can be different on trunk since bug 1612239)

(In reply to Tobias Weibel from comment #0)

I'm reading blogs through RSS in Thunderbird. I normally read the most interesting articles and then I press "C" to call "Mark Read by Date". Since version 78b2 (maybe b1) the mark as read doesn't work anymore. I still get the dialog to enter the two dates it won't mark the messages anymore. I normally just enter the "to date".

Can you confirm it also fails in b1? Use http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/78.0b1/ You might need to use --allow-downgrade on command line to use the same profile

I can confirm the bug in 78b1 as well.

And the bug is fixed in 80.0b5 (already earlier, but that's my current version)

What about 78.2.0, the current release? If working, please close as WORKSFORME.

I can confirm the bug for 78.1.1

So what about 78.2?

Bug is still reproducible with 78.2.1

Still reproducible in 78.5

Here's the error from 78.5

16:42:01.917
Uncaught
Exception
​
columnNumber: 0
​
data: null
​
filename: "chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js"
​
lineNumber: 121
​
location: XPCWrappedNative_NoHelper { QueryInterface: QueryInterface(), filename: Getter, name: Getter, … }
​
message: "Failure arg 0 [nsIMsgFolder.markMessagesRead]"
​
name: "NS_ERROR_FAILURE"
​
result: 2147500037
​
stack: "markInDatabase@chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js:121:19\nonAccept@chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js:63:17\n_fireButtonEvent@chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:487:19\n_doButtonCommand@chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:466:29\n_handleButtonCommand@chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:460:19\nMsgMarkReadByDate@chrome://messenger/content/mailWindowOverlay.js:2466:10\ndoCommand@chrome://messenger/content/mail3PaneWindowCommands.js:957:9\ndoCommand@chrome://messenger/content/mailTabs.js:844:23\ndoCommand@chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.js:577:27\ngoDoCommand@chrome://global/content/globalOverlay.js:101:18\noncommand@chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml:1:12\n"
​
<prototype>: ExceptionPrototype { toString: toString(), name: Getter, message: Getter, … }
markByDate.js:121
markInDatabase chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js:121
onAccept chrome://messenger/content/markByDate.js:63
_fireButtonEvent chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:487
_doButtonCommand chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:466
_handleButtonCommand chrome://global/content/elements/dialog.js:460
_handleButtonCommand self-hosted:844
MsgMarkReadByDate chrome://messenger/content/mailWindowOverlay.js:2466
doCommand chrome://messenger/content/mail3PaneWindowCommands.js:957
doCommand chrome://messenger/content/mailTabs.js:844
doCommand chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.js:577
goDoCommand chrome://global/content/globalOverlay.js:101
oncommand chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml:1

​

Backing out https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/96995bd8f55c685952d95b51fdb1c0a8f10c05a9 on 78 should fix it. On trunk it's working due to other changes in bug 1612239. Rob, can you take care

Regressed by bug 1612247

Thunderbird 78.6.0:
Backed out commit from comment 17 as requested (from bug 1612247):
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr78/rev/c010f2c127e8