Bug 218617

Summary:	Ghost new messages shown by kmail icon in system tray
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	arojas, bjoern
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Andrey Borzenkov 2009-12-14 10:14:19 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

KDE 4.3.80

I do not remember this in 4.3; in 4.4 it happened several times. I do not know how reliably reproduce it, but as far as I can reconstruct what was happening:

- I had kmail with all messages read
- logout from KDE without closing KMail
- start KDE again
- KMail is started automatically as part of saved session. On startup it displayed one "new" message in last folder I was viewing before logout. There was exactly one new message before logout that I viewed and deleted
- entering this folder cleared "new messages" on folder (bold font) but left 1 unread message in tray icon
- now this tray icon is "stuck" - I have no way to remove new message indication from it.

Comment 1 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-10 00:13:41 UTC

You reported against a pre-version of KDE 4.4. Has this improved since then?

Comment 2 Andrey Borzenkov 2010-03-10 04:46:46 UTC

I still see it sometimes after a crash. It is just that now my system crashes less often :)

Comment 3 Antonio Rojas 2010-03-10 08:54:01 UTC

I'm seeing this too after closing the session without closing kmail first. You can get rid of the icon by clicking it twice (to minimize kmail to tray and restore it)

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 09:45:45 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.