124345 - Mozilla blocks when receiving large newsgroups

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 84042

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[juergen.ginkel]

When Mozilla tries to receive more than approximately 10.000 articles at a time,
the program blocks completely and can only be killed with the task manager.

Comment 1

[Karl Johan Kleist]

Reporter:

1. Please always specify which "Build ID" you're using,
   as found in the title bar of the main Mozilla window.

2. Please change severity level to "critical". "blocker" is an extraordinary
   one reserved for bugs which completely prevents developers and QA people
   from using Mozilla.

3. It would be helpful if you could provide an example of a news server /
   news group which causes this problem. It _may_ be the case that it isn't
   the number of articles per se which causes the problem, there may be
   more subtle issues involved.

Thank you for using Bugzilla!

Comment 2

[juergen.ginkel]

Build ID: 2001122106

Affected Newsgroups (for example): de.admin.news.groups, 
de.comp.os.ms-windows.misc, de.comp.tv+video

Bug can be avoided if I activate "Ask me 
before downloading more than 8000 messages"

Comment 3

[Karl Johan Kleist]

But to which news server are you connecting?

Comment 4

[juergen.ginkel]

To a local news server called "Hamster" (german software).

Hint: If I use another news reader 
(let's say, Opera), all 15.000+ posting can be retrieved without a problem, so I don't think it's 
an issue of my news server.

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

Most likely a duplicate of bug 84042. Feel free to add any additional info to
make that bug more easily reproducible.

Comment 6

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

it's a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84042 ***

Comment 7

[Håkan Waara]

a-yup.