30336 - "download all headers" only downloads 500 headers

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 26146

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Waterson]

alecf sez it's a hard-coded limit that needs to be removed or something.

To reproduce:

. Choose a newsgroup that you're subscribed to with a lot of new unread posts 
(you may need to unsubscribe/resubscribe to a newsgroup to get into this 
state).

. The "Download Headers For" dialog will come up.

. Select "Download all headers", and click ok.

Expected: all headers will download
Actual: only 500 headers download

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

marking beta1. my guess is that the fix is easy, low-risk, and that there'll be 
a large number of bugs filed if it goes out like it is.

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

it's not a hardcoded limit - the default pref for maximum download when not in
download-all mode is 500... I think the problem is that it's not acknowledging
that we're in download-all mode.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

no, it's not a hard coded limit problem.

the problem is the "download all headers" button isn't hooked up yet.

the problem is that I need to fix openWindow() in nsNNTPNewsgroupList.cpp

I'm opening the window up with no way to get back ok / cancel or user decisions.

I think all that works is changing the max articles or changing the "mark all
read" checkbox.

this is really a duplicate of bug #26146

I'll mark that bug beta1.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26146 ***

Comment 4

[fenella]

Mark it verified/dup.