Re: Unread messages count in Multizilla newsgroup

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:52:17 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.multizilla
Organization The Mozdev Foundation - news server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rubens wrote:
> MCBastos wrote, on 2010-01-17 23:08:
>> Interviewed by CNN on 17/1/2010 09:43, Rubens told the world:
>>
>>> I did notice a misterious glitch using SeaMonkey to read this newsgroup:
>>>
>>> Upon open SeaMonkey=B4s newsreader, an "unread" messages count is
>>> displayed at the right of the newsgroup name in Seamonkey=B4s left pane,
>>> even if I have already read all the messages received up to that moment.
>>
>> I have seen this behavior in another group. I think Seamonkey sometimes
>> gets confused about the count of unread messages.
>>
>> Try right-clicking on the group and selecting "Mark Newsgroup Read." It
>> should reset the unread messages count to zero.
>>
> =

> Yes, right clicking like that it is possible to reset the unread =

> messages count
> to zero, but the symptom returns next time Seamonkey is started.
> =

> What I think is more strange is that this happens only for this newsgroup,
> at least for me, and it resists up to unsubscribing and deleting the
> corresponding .msf file.

close SM, and manually delete the *.msf file.  Restart =

SM, and re-download the messages again. This is a huge =

known problem that still remains unfixed for years!

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