Closed Bug 500809 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Thunderbird 3.0b2 confused by News accounts with ports other than 119

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 470907

People

(Reporter: jason, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090427 Fedora/3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: 3.0b2 (Fedora 11)

I use an SSH tunnel to get to the Red Hat NNTP server, and have an account set up in Thunderbird to use port 8119.  When I select a subscribed group from this account, it opens just fine, and is up to date with new messages.  I can check different groups just fine.  But if I actually try to read one of the messages, I get a modal dialog saying 

"The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:119."

At this point, Thunderbird has created a duplicate account which uses port 119, and tries to use that one instead of the one I have selected.  At this point, trying to select a different group pops up a dialog box asking me if I want to subscribe to this group, even though I was just looking at it a minute ago.

This bug makes it impossible for me to read this account with 3.0b2.

Reproducible: Always
Already fixed for b3 when it comes out.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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