[Users] Ignoring messages an ongoing conversation unreliable

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:52:16 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 18, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
>> Since a few weeks I uses the 'Ignore conversation' feature to
>> automatically mark further replies to the start of a thread as read.
>> This works in >95% of the cases. Sometimes claws still shows me new,
>> unread messages 'deep' in a conversation.  
>
>> What can be done to debug it?
>> Where is the info about 'ignored conversations' stored?  
>
>
>This happens more often now, and starts to bother me.
>
>Is anyone beside me using this feature anyway?
>
>I browsed the code briefly. It seems MSG_IGNORE_THREAD is the flag
>that is in some cases not propagated for newly arrived mails. Where is
>the code that processes newly arrived mails? Perhaps I can come up
>with a debug change to trace the issue.

Just a shot into the dark, could it be that those threads are broken?

An "unread messages 'deep' in a conversation" not necessarily doesn't
break the thread. Is it a message 'deep' in the thread tree, or does it
start a new thread (tree).

FWIW, no, I'm not using this feature.