Closed Bug 121997 Opened 23 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Server is added to account list when visiting news:// url

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41133

People

(Reporter: jonasj, Assigned: sspitzer)

References

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URL
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Details

Build 2002012406, Win2000.

If you have news.mozilla.org in your server list, go to Account Settings and
remove news.mozilla.org, or create a new profile. Then open a navigator window
and go to <news://news.mozilla.org/3C51D92E.8030201@mozilla.org>.
news.mozilla.org magically appears in your account list.
i think that is correct !
NS4.7x adds the server also to the server list.

Then 4.7 is broken too. This behavior is *not* correct. If someone points me to
an article on a news server, I do not necessarily want to have that server in my
account list.
I think Jonas is right.  I think autosubscribe urls are the only time we should
add a server account.

Autosubscribe -
news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.test

For just viewing a single article, it doesn't seem like we need to populate the
folder pane with this account, since we don't actually download headers (heck,
we don't even add the newsgroup to the server).  

Not a major bug, but certainly an annoyance.
This appears to be a duplicate of Bug 41133.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41133 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Component: MailNews: Subscribe → MailNews: Message Display
QA Contact: stephend → search
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