187489 - cannot post to isp's news server

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 54911

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Tim Coote]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

(I'm sure that I've posted a similar bug before on an older version of mozilla,
but I can't find it. Neither can I find instructions for logging the interaction
so that I can capture what's going wrong.

I have four nntp servers configured, (for office and home access, plus a couple
fo spare :-) ) as although both accounts are with the same isp, they seem unable
to give me access to just one nntp server.

when posting using the 'home' account and server, (the last server in the list),
mozilla gives me the message: "A News (NNTP) error occurred:
reading.news.pipex.net: Access denied to your node"

This is the *first* server that I've got configured, so I'm not surprised that
it doesn't work!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.configure four (two?) news servers that restrict access based on ip address
2.post to the last and see that mozilla tries to post to the first
3.

Actual Results:  
mozilla seems to try to post to the wrong server.

Expected Results:  
post the composed message to the selected nntp server

Comment 1

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dup of bug 54911, see also bug 80542

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54911 ***

Comment 2

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verified dup.

and if you need logging (now, or in the future):
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#nntp