132540 - can not connect to news server, as news secretely uses proxy.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[simon wood]

After upgrading to Mozilla 0.9.9 (from 0.9.7) I discovered that I could no
longer connect to my company's news server.

It appears that Mozilla News is attempting to connect via the proxy, but there
is no 'News Proxy' setting.

As our proxy doesn't seem to cope with this (or more likely has this blocked on
purpose), the work around is to 'no proxy for "news.domain.com"'.

There ought to be a setting somewhere for en/disabling proxing for news.
Simon.

Comment 1

[Chris Lee]

It seems that Mail/news is not using the dont use proxy for these addresses
section of the proxy config.
I have a problem where it gets my mail from outside but cant send via the
internal SMTP server as it is using the proxy when it should not.

Comment 2

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

Simon, what happens if you enter your fully qualified domain name of the news
server into the 'No Proxy For' section of Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Proxies?

Comment 3

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

This would require an architecture change, that I think is covered by 
bug 51472.  Ben will correct me if I'm wrong ;-)

Comment 4

[benc]

MailNews should only obey the "SOCKS" and "No Proxy" fields.

If the contents of the other fields affect your connectivity, clear them to
verify the problem. This would be a bug.

As for making proxy preferences more robust for Mail News users, I think you
really want bug 89928.

Comment 5

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89928 ***

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

reopening. Bug 89928 is an enhancement, this is a bug. It's not yet decided, if
bug 89928 will be fixed at all or when.

Comment 7

[simon wood]

setting 'No Proxy For' section of Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Proxies is the
workaround that I was suggesting.

I think the main issue for me was that I had the SOCKS Proxy set, and there news
was trying to connect via this proxy server. This fails, presumably because of
how the proxy is set up (this is a M$ based system at work so I have no control
over it).

I've removed the 'SOCKS Proxy' setting (and the workaround 'don't proxy') and
things are working OK.

Simon.

Comment 8

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

Simon, are you satisfied that entering your news server in the 'no proxy for'
field is okay?  There are RFEs floating around out there suggesting other
solutions, but this is currently as it was designed...

Comment 9

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

when I enter 'news.mcom.com' into the 'no proxy for:' field, this worksforme
with build 2002-05-17 on Windows 2000 with a SOCKS 5 server.

Comment 10

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

verified (I'm assuming you're okay; if not, please do re-open).