121997 - Server is added to account list when visiting news:// url

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41133

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jonas Jørgensen]

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/[e-mail]>.
news.mozilla.org magically appears in your account list.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

i think that is correct !
NS4.7x adds the server also to the server list.

Comment 2

[Jonas Jørgensen]

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.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

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.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This appears to be a duplicate of Bug 41133.

Comment 5

[Jonas Jørgensen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41133 ***

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup