Closed Bug 6619 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Expanding the folder list (the 1st time) does not update count totals

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: lchiang, Assigned: scottputterman)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: can't verify until bug 7002 is fixed.)

Expanding the folder list (the 1st time) does not update count totals - no .msf files generated Tested on 19990-05-17 builds on all platforms 1) Remove all .msf files (to simulate first time Seamonkey mail user). Prefs50.js file has the appropriate mail preferences. 2) Start apprunner 3) Select Tasks | Messenger 4) Mail window appears. Double click to expand the mail server / list of folders 5) Mail folders are listed, but the counts for unread and total remain at 0. This is probably because the .msf files are not generated until I select a folder and then the .msf file is generated for that folder.
Assignee: phil → putterman
I don't expect the counts to be right in this scenario; I don't think they were right in 4.x under the same conditions. I think in the old world we showed question marks, and it might be nice to do that here, if we can. Reassigning to putterman.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
This is a side effect of the change waterson recently made. I'll take it any day over having all of my folders read in at once. I'll look into making sure question marks appear. And of course, I think the magical summary.dat might help out eventually, but that's for another milestone.
I have a temporary fix for this I'll check in tomorrow. Before a .msf file is loaded, it will display ???. Then when a folder is selected, the real count will occur. A side effect of this is that servers will display ???, but I don't have any way around that at the moment.
Target Milestone: M6
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I checked this in. It'll now show "???" when the message counts are unknown.
Whiteboard: can't verify until bug 7002 is fixed.
In the current builds, the message count still shows 0. I think this is due to bug 7002. Will wait until that bug is fixed before I verify this specific case.
Depends on: 7002
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
This is basically working with the ??? showing up, but there are some minor problems which I'll log separately. Verified Win32 6/16 build. Verified Mac 6/16 build. Verified Linux 6/16 build.
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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