thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Starring a message should happen on the background thread
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- Kotlin
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Description
Expected behaviour
Tell us what should happen
When you set a message to starred via the star in a message view, K9 Mail should keep these.
Actual behaviour
Tell us what happens instead
If you set a message to starred while syncing, the star will be resettet to what it was before.
Steps to reproduce
- Start sync.
- Open a message and star it.
Environment
K-9 Mail version: 5.010
Android version: 6.0.1
Account type (IMAP, POP3, WebDAV/Exchange): IMAP, mail provider is web.de
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue while a sync is running, then trace the message-star update and sync handling in the Android app. Done means starring a message during sync leaves it starred instead of restoring the previous state.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100