User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 (20030901) I have three pop3 accounts set up in Thunderbird 0.2. From all these accounts, one is the most important and thus is the one always expanded while the other are compressed. Whenever junk mail is filtered in any of the three accounts, it goes to the "Junk" folder in my main account. This works fine; however, there is still a new mail flag in the account that received the e-mail even though there are no new mails there (which is even telling me that the inbox file is being written and needs compacting before all these e-mails get out). The only way of working around this problem is expanding the account with the new mail flag and opening the inbox, at which time the flag goes away. Note: this phenomenon happens even in my main pop3 account when, for example, the junk mail folder is open, and new junk mail arrives. There is a new message flag even if you open this message, and delete it. The only way of taking the flag off is by opening any other folder in the account (especially the inbox). This is not as problematic as with the secondary accounts in which you have to expand, open the inbox and then compress to take the flag off, but is also not nice at all. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have two pop3 accounts point to the same junk mail folder in either of them. 2. Wait five to ten minutes before the next spam arrives (if not sooner) and note the new mail flag that appears even when it was filtered out of the account. 3. Expand the account where this e-mail came from and realize that there may not be any emails in there. 4. The only way of taking the flag off, then, is by opening the inbox or, I believe, any other folder in that account Actual Results: Following this procedure, the flag dissapears, and everyone is happy. Expected Results: Thunderbird should check the e-mails as they are downloaded and filter them before they are written to the specific inbox folder (it should do this with all filtering). In this way, no new mail flags will appear. There should also be a choice to set thunderbird not to tell you there is new mail in any way (even with the popup window) if the received e-mail is filtered as junk. If this is done, a new functionality should also be added to help people recognize where these e-mails came from. This could appear as perhaps a different color of the subject line that tells you from which account it was downloaded (coupled, perhaps, with a feature that lets you filter all downloaded messages of one account into a folder outside this account).

I think that this bug, in addition to being two separate issues, is also a duplicate. Bug 116181 deals with the New Mail flag not being cleared, and bug 189289 is about not showing the New Mail indicators when only junk is received in a batch of mail. These issues drive me nuts as well, as I get tons of spam, however I'm fairly confident the complaints are already being addressed by these other bugs. Please reopen if I'm wrong, or if fixing that bug in MailNews is something that would need to be ported to Thunderbird specially. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116181 ***

Reopening because it's not the right dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189289 ***