Closed Bug 534101 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Clicking a link with a "news" scheme creates a dummy account

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Account Manager
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327885

People

(Reporter: wodny, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090730 Iceweasel/3.5.5 (like Firefox/3.5.5; Debian-3.5.5-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

Click a link of form <news:message-id> for example: <news:hfre7s$lqd$1@inews.gazeta.pl> and a dummy newsgroup account called "news" is created.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click a <news:...> link
2. Restart Thunderbird
3. View the list of accounts
Actual Results:  
A newsgroup account is created.

Expected Results:  
Nothing happens or there is a sensible functionality in it.
If the functionality is going to be "go the message", than please look at attachments here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112422

Seams to be associated with: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160505
Component: General → Account Manager
QA Contact: general → account-manager
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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