101335 - Phantom "#news" item in Mail

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect)

Description

[deej]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913
BuildID:    2001091311

Imported an N4.78 profile (which includes an IMAP mail account). Opened the
Mail/News window and entered my password. The IMAP account was populated with my
IMAP mailboxes, but also a weird "#news" item which is greyed out. This item
appears in the IMAP mailbox list, not a news account list.

The #news folder can be "opened", but its contents are not usable. Subfolders
can opened, but clicking the end "nodes" results in a message that the item
"#news.aus.computers.mac: no such mailbox".

The only thing I can work out is that Mozilla appears to be reading my ".newsrc"
file out of my home directory and using it as a listing of mailboxes. If I
remove my .newsrc, Mozilla does not display this "#news" mailbox.

The hierarchy in my home directory goes:
~/
~/.newsrc
~/mail
~/mail/mailbox1... etc.

My IMAP account has "mail/" in the Server Settings > Advanced > IMAP Server
Directory preference.

Reproducible: Always (under appropriate conditions)
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the "rn" news reader. Subscribe yourself to some mailing lists
2. Configure an IMAP-based mail account
3. Login to the IMAP account

Comment 1

[deej]

Attachment: Phantom #news folder screen-capture.

Comment 2

[deej]

Attachment: Another screen-capture of the weird #news item

Comment 3

[Michael Kolmodin]

This is related to bug 61508 which basically is a serious performance
degradation related to the #news "mailbox".

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 5

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

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 7

[deej]

Apparently this WASN'T closed as WONTFIX "in four weeks", some 5 years ago. Doing that now.