__/ [ dj_nme ] on Tuesday 21 March 2006 00:46 \__
> Rainman wrote:
>
>> Leo Fellmann wrote:
>>
>>>Rainman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Anybody else notice a tiny little bug in thunderbird when downloading
>>>>headers from their newsserver? Every time I log on, it says I have about
>>>>630 new headers (by highlighting the NG with bold letters and the number
>>>>next to it in parenthesis), but I've already looked at those messages
>>>>and know for certain I'm up to date.
>>>
>>>Have they actually been marked as read (numbers in bold are # of unread
>>>headers, not # of new headers & can persist)?
>>
>>
>> I have no unread messages. When I click on a message, it goes away, but
>> the next time I open thunderbird, it shows that many new unread (same
>> thing in my case I guess, because I have read all the old ones) messages.
>>
>>
>>>Workaround would be to right-click on the newsgroup and "Mark Newsgroup
>>>Read"
>>>Can help especially if you have unread posts as a result of not
>>>downloading the message bodies of your own posts.
>>
>>
>> Did that, but it only fixes it for the current session. When I close the
>> client and open it again later, it initially detects that many again.
>>
>> Rainman
>
> I have had the same thing happen, but I have a feeling that it is a
> glitch with the server and not Thunderbird.
> It only happens once in a while and a few days later everything returns
> to normal without me doing anything.
Have you yet filed a report with Bugzilla? This might be fixable and
reporting it to the NG would have no effect. I have never come across such
issues and I have used KNode exclusively as a newsreader, for years.
I don't want to start a newsreader wars (there is a whole newsgroup dedicated
to only this topic), but mail clients tend to be poor newsreaders because of
the tendency to integrate mail and treat news as though it was mail. I heard
from some people that Thunderbird, which I use for E-mail, is not most
suitable for newsgroups. I use Mozilla Mail for news on occasions, but it is
not on par with KNode either.
Best wishes,
Roy
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