Newsgroup messages always showing up as unread, but they are actually read.

[Bob [IBM]]

I apologize if this has been mentioned before, I did a search and did
not locate anything. Recently starting using Thunderbird as my
newsreader. I have the situation where a number of newsgroups (although
all messages are read in them) show as having unread messages when the
account is opened and refreshed. Yet when I choose the newsgroup the
unread message count disappears and no messages are shown, until that is
there actually are unread messages. I have tried unsubscribing and
resubscribing to the newsgroup with no success.

Thoughts and pointers to information are appreciated.

Bob

[Chris Ilias]

_Bob [IBM]_ spoke thusly on 18/02/2006 2:52 PM:

Have you tried marking all messages as read?
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[Irwin Greenwald]

Often ignoring or killing threads will cause "gaps" in the records of
what has been viewed as shown in what follows. These can be easily fixed.

With TB closed, use Windows Explorer to go to your Profile/News folder
and use any text editor to open the .rc file(s) for the offending
servers. You will see a list of the newsgroups similar to:

mozilla.support.firefox: 1-4483
mozilla.support.thunderbird: 1-3699,3750,3753-3762
mozilla.test: 1-317

change the second line to

mozilla.support.thunderbird: 1-3762

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[Bob [IBM]]

Chris Ilias wrote:
> _Bob [IBM]_ spoke thusly on 18/02/2006 2:52 PM:
>> I apologize if this has been mentioned before, I did a search and did
>> not locate anything. Recently starting using Thunderbird as my
>> newsreader. I have the situation where a number of newsgroups (although
>> all messages are read in them) show as having unread messages when the
>> account is opened and refreshed. Yet when I choose the newsgroup the
>> unread message count disappears and no messages are shown, until that is
>> there actually are unread messages. I have tried unsubscribing and
>> resubscribing to the newsgroup with no success.
>>
>> Thoughts and pointers to information are appreciated.
>
> Have you tried marking all messages as read?

Of course - and I only show unread messages .. as indicated above when I
click on the newsgroup it immed goes to all unread (unless there are new
message). Thanks for the reply though.

[Bob [IBM]]

Irwin Greenwald wrote:
> Bob [IBM] wrote:
>> I apologize if this has been mentioned before, I did a search and did
>> not locate anything. Recently starting using Thunderbird as my
>> newsreader. I have the situation where a number of newsgroups
>> (although all messages are read in them) show as having unread
>> messages when the account is opened and refreshed. Yet when I choose
>> the newsgroup the unread message count disappears and no messages are
>> shown, until that is there actually are unread messages. I have tried
>> unsubscribing and resubscribing to the newsgroup with no success.
>>
>> Thoughts and pointers to information are appreciated.
>>
>> Bob
> Often ignoring or killing threads will cause "gaps" in the records of
> what has been viewed as shown in what follows. These can be easily fixed.
>
> With TB closed, use Windows Explorer to go to your Profile/News folder
> and use any text editor to open the .rc file(s) for the offending
> servers. You will see a list of the newsgroups similar to:
>
> mozilla.support.firefox: 1-4483
> mozilla.support.thunderbird: 1-3699,3750,3753-3762
> mozilla.test: 1-317
>
> change the second line to
>
> mozilla.support.thunderbird: 1-3762
>
>

Thank-you very much - that was indeed the case. Appreciate the tip and
the pointer!

Bob

[Phillip Jones]

What would that be for the Mac Version. The file to edit is NewsRC

I see this mozilla.support.thunderbird: 1-3763,3774,3775