Markus Schöpflin wrote:
Brian Riis wrote:
Reece Dunn wrote:
Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
"Stefan Slapeta" <stefan_nospam_@slapeta.com> wrote in message news:cjkj7t$a8u$2@sea.gmane.org...
Last time I used Mozilla for reading newsgroups (over a year ago) if found that it would frequently report a particular numbers of messages as unread (the number would appear in parantheses after the newsgroup name) but no messages in my inbox would by marked as unread. I could never tell whether the reported number of unread messages was an error, or if there really were some unread messages getting lost. So I switched to Outlook.
Does Thunderbird use the same code as the Mozilla browser's news and email client? If so, do you know if this problem has been fixed?
I am not sure about the code base it uses, but it appears to report the correct number of messages in the Inbox (and the subfolders I have created for the various Boost threads, using the Filters feature which rocks!) So maybe they have fixed the problem you experienced :).
Unfortunately, no. I've experienced the exact same problem with ThunderBird 0.8. In the end, the only resolution was to resubscribe to the newsgroup. Don't know how the problem started, but apparently it's not a new thing.
You can fix this by editing the news rc file in the thunderbird folder. It contains lines like for example:
gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel: 1-111178,111273,111274,111276,111279,111291,111357
Just canchge this to
gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel: 1-111357
and it behaves normally again. By doing so, you of course also mark all messages as read, but its better than resubscribing if you have a big local archive. The fix also works for Mozilla.
Fix? Seems more like a hack to me... :) But thanks a lot for the tip. I *did*, in fact, lose a rather large local archive when I resubscribed, so this'll be a life-saver, if it happens again.
HTH, Markus
It will! -- /Brian Riis