Open Bug 1096355 Opened 10 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Thunderbird fails to use the default usenet host

Categories

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

31 Branch
x86_64
Linux
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: giecrilj, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141013200257

Steps to reproduce:

{ thunderbird -news 'news:news.answers'; }


Actual results:

Thunderbird displayed the INBOX of my primary mail account.


Expected results:

Thunderbird should have displayed the relevant group from my primary news account.
According to the examples shown in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-1.1.2 "news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix" is a valid URL. Thus,

* thunderbird news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix

should work similar to

* thunderbird mailto:John.Doe@example.com

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-news_news_URL likely describes the internal syntax. Without the "-news" switch, you'd expect the URL passed as argument to be parsed.
Severity: normal → S3
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