"Mark all as read" in search results acts on current folder

[0xf10e]

This one is really annoying:
When I search for something and get the results I can hit "Select all" and only the search results get selected.
But when I hit (almost always accidentally) "Mark all as read" the whole folder currently shown gets marked as read.

So while I was sorting my email on my tablet a few minutes ago all my inbox got marked as read…

[philipwhiuk]

The button is technically correct here ('all' means 'all' not 'what I can currently see') but it's not very intuitive.

[0xf10e]

Then at least a confirmation dialogue would be nice, wouldn't it?

[0xf10e]

Oh, and then, for consistency's sake, "select all" should select the whole inbox and not just the search results ;)

[philipwhiuk]

I did say it was wrong :)

I think the fix is to handle search results differently and pass along the list of messages/threads/UUIDs.

I don't think a confirmation dialog is a good idea.

[cketti]

Actions that affect the whole folder should probably live elsewhere. Let's call this an enhancement and deal with it during the design overhaul.

[vladimir-mencl-eresearch]

Can I add a +1 on this issue? I got caught by the same thing - used Mark All As Read in search results and all my inbox got marked as read. Turned out to be rather upsetting.

I would consider this a bug: having a button shown in Search Results but acting on the whole folder.

I am happy to wait for an enhancement to have an action that marks all messages in the search results as read.

But until it is implemented, can we please have the Mark All As Read item removed from the menu shown in the Search Results? It is confusing and I would not want more users to fall into the same trap as I did myself (and so did @0xf10e )

Cheers,
Vlad

[groszdaniel]

Just got hit by this. There's a confirmation dialog now, but it just asks something like "Do you want to mark all messages read?", and doesn't make what "all" refers to any clearer. I concur with the original request as well as with that this should be considered a bug, and a major one that can cause unexpected information loss at that, and if it's not changed to the more useful behavior, at least the confirmation dialog should be changed to specify that all mail in the current folder will be marked read, not just the search results.