150823 - Cannot post news to a server once I connected to it to read news

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[valette]

Each time I try to post a news to either our local news server, or to our ISP
provider, it fails if I have already opened the news server folder.

I get the message : "Sending of message failed\n. Please verudy that your Mail &
Newsgroup accounts are correct and try again.

If I close the compose window, store the message in the draft folder, quit
mozilla restart it, and post using the draft message it works.

NB : nobody has any problems when using either netscape 4 or emacs/gnus. It
apperaed in Mozilla around version 0.9.6 but becomes really annoying as I need
to restart mozilla each time I want to post a news.

Comment 1

[valette]

I use mozilla 1.0...

Comment 2

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

Hi valette - would you mind providing us with an NNTP log?

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#nntp contains
instructions, thanks.

Comment 3

[Peter B. West]

I can confirm this on build 2002052918, linux redhat 7.3, using movemail with
fetchmail and procmail as my mail environment, modem connection.

I can send a message after I open a newsgroup, before I have opened any
messages.  After opening any messge, I can neither send a new message nor reply
to a message.

This, for those of us who experience it, is a major bug.  Obviously, I think.

Comment 4

[valette]

> Hi valette - would you mind providing us with an NNTP log?

No. I updated to Mozilla 1.1a, and followed the instructions but in that case I
can post. So log is not usefull. However, it confirms that Mozilla 1.0 has
indeed a bug...

NB : however, the Cancel button is not activated on mozilla 1.1a...

Comment 5

[valette]

Oops. The bug appeared again this morning on Mozilla 1.1a. Unfortunately, the
debug options were not activated...

I will restart with debug on, let it run and try to send them.

Comment 6

[valette]

Attachment: log for a failing news send.

Comment 7

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

Vallete - the cancel issue is covered in bug 150036.  As far as the log goes, I
see us issuing a lot of cleanup() calls in the process of shutting down. 
However, I don't see any NNTP_ERROR or 'failed' text in the log.

Comment 8

[valette]

Maybe but during this session, the post failed. So maybe there are untraced
errors or the error is due to the fact that I also receive a mail in BCC but I
doubt that because mail is working fine.

You asked for the log, you have it. Try to *USE* news and you will see it fails. 

Comment 9

[Dom Incollingo]

This may be related to bug 146145 and bug 137009.  All three bugs relate to the
exact same error message when trying to post to a newsgroup or trying to respond
to a newsgroup post. And all three bugs seem to apply to a Linux environment
only. I have experienced the error described in all three bug reports many times
when using Mozilla on Linux (SuSE 8.0).  But I have never experienced this
problem when running Mozilla on Win 2K.

Comment 10

[Dom Incollingo]

Also related to bug 142872.

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

*** Bug 146145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[[e-mail]]

This is still in Mozilla 1.2a (build 2002091016)

It seems that different people (and hence bug reports) try to hold different
situatuations responsible for when this error occurs. I cannot confirm
any of these - I am seeing this not only when replying but also for new
news messages, and I am seeing it when the news window is the only one open.

Comment 13

[[e-mail]]

Not being able to post is a major loss of function.

Comment 14

[Erik Verbruggen]

With Mozilla 1.2.1, this bug still occurs, or at least on Linux RH7.2 with the
supplied release build.

The work-around is to either have the mail window with the folders and the
subjects also contain the message you're reading (so you have 1 window and the
reply/compose window). The other work-around is to close all *message* windows
(for when your folder/subject window does not contain the message you're
viewing/replying).

Without any knowledge of the Mozilla source, I'd say that "somewhere" there is
support for only 1 message window, or post stuff does not retreive the right
information from the posting message window.

Comment 15

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

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 16

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

magnus, have you seen this in recent years?
I never have, including bug 142872 and bug 137009

Comment 17

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Nope, haven't seen it. Anybody else still see this? Given the last comment was in 2002 i doubt it still exists.

Comment 18

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 19

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

WFM per comment 17