Re: [Evolution] The Unread count bug revisited

[Gavin Simpson <gavin simpson ucl ac uk>]

On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:55 -0400, Ian wrote:
> In my case, I have one subdirectory that shows a count of four
> "unread" messages.  I select one and the "unread" count goes to five.
> I "read" it and it goes back to four.  This is on Ubuntu 10.04.  There
> are no emails showing "bold".
> Ideas?
> ixb

Same here on Fedora 13 (Evolution 2.30.2 evolution.x86_64
2.30.2-4.fc13). But selecting a message doesn't increase count. I must
mark as Unread, then Mark Read several messages, as described below.

I have a folder that Evo says includes 2 Unread messages. There is only
1 Unread message in this folder. The count in the folder list is 'Folder
Name (2)' and the info for the selected folder reads '2 Unread, 100
total'.

If I the mark 2 more messages as Unread, the folder list shows 'Folder
Name (3)' and the info at the top of the folder list reads '3 unread,
100 total'.

I then select 4 messages (including the two I marked as Unread in the
step above, but *not* the one true Unread message in the folder from the
start) and mark them as unread. The folder list now says 'Folder Name
(1)' and the info at the top of the folder list reads '1 unread, 99
total'.

I notice this most on folders that don't get a message filtered into
very often (low volume traffic lists for example) and that I don't go
into very often. I read my mail on 3 different machines (2 running
Fedora 12, one with Fedora 13). Quite often I find my folders showing
incorrect information of this sort.

By the way, How does one get an Unread but deleted message? If I mark a
message as deleted and it was Unread, it gets turned into a Read message
in the message list, and the info in the folder list changes
accordingly.

G

> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 09:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > Several people (including me) have complained that on occasion Evo shows
> > the wrong count of Unread messages in a folder, e.g. it shows an Unread
> > count of 1 when all the messages have been read.
> >
> > I've recently been experimenting with this, and now have a reliable way
> > of 1) creating the problem, and 2) fixing it. Note that there may be
> > more than one bug here (BZ has several reports and it's not clear if
> > they're all talking about the same thing), so this may not work for you.
> > Nevertheless, I think it's interesting. The report is at:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577542#c13
> >
> > Briefly, you can create the problem by dragging a deleted but Unread
> > message from an IMAP folder to a local one. You can fix it by marking
> > one or more Read messages as Unread while watching the Unread count. As
> > long as the count is inconsistent, marking messages as unread *will not
> > increment it*. When the count becomes equal to the number of marked
> > messages, it returns to consistency. If you then mark the messages as
> > read, the count will decrement and remain consistent (until the next
> > time of course :-)
> >
> > poc
> >
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