14766 - Copy to selected folder for an outgoing News message isn't working

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[esther]

Using 19990923 build on win98, the function of copying an outgoing news message
to a selected folder is not working.

1. Launch Messenger
2. Select Account Setup from the Edit menu
3. Select a news server and double click to show Copies and Folders
4. Select the POP Sent folder as the folder to send outgoing copies to
5. OK the dialog and Compose a message to the newsgroup you just selected and
Send it
6. Open the Sent folder, notice a copy of the message is not there.
Note: this works for mail but not news.

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

I have a feeling this is jefft or sspitzer... probably jefft.

Comment 2

[jefft]

Isn't there a "news.default_fcc_uri" needs to be set in order to make it work? I
am not sure though. One of rhp's bug should have the exact pref definition I
think.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

No! <xxx>.default_fcc_uri is dead. Please don't use it.
Use the account manager instead.
Using the current identity, call GetFccFolder() to get the URI and call
GetDoFcc() to decide if you should be doing this or not.

However, I'll bet this is for rhp then, because I did find mail.default_fcc_uri
and replaced it with the identity code above. There must be similar code for
news. (though I'm surprised it's not in the same place)

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

reassign this to me.

the pref is getting set correctly...just not on windows.

as I'm discovering for another bug, windows was completely insane on how they
stored fcc URI's in 4.x

so I'm fixing the URI migration code now.

its a per-identity pref,  just like it is for email.

when the user migrated, each mail server got paired off with an identity that was
created from the users 4.x identity and their 4.x mail specific "copies and
folders" prefs.

each news server got paired off with an identity that was created from the users
4.x identity and their news specific "copies and folders" prefs.

the related bug is 14766.

I'm looking at how the mac stored those prefs in 4.x

let's hope its not different from UNIX and Crazy.  (aka windows)

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

I've been snooping around the back end and I just saw this comment:

Line 2151 of nsMsgSend.cpp:

// RICHIE SHERRY - need to deal with news FCC's also!

accepting.

Comment 6

[Phil Peterson]

Reassign to rhp

Comment 7

[rhp (gone)]

What my comment was in reference to was when you want to post a copy of your
message as your "FCC" operation. This should work, but if it's not, I will have
to diagnose and fix. That won't happen before midnight.

- rhp

Comment 8

[rhp (gone)]

I just ran through this and it seemed to work fine for me. Test by posting and
copying to several local folders.

- rhp

Comment 9

[esther]

Using builds 1999111017 on win98 and linux and 1999111111 on mac this is
working (it passed all platforms for basic functional tests).  Verified