17222 - Migration of irregular port news server causes problems.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect, P3)

Description

[laurel]

When you migrate a profile which contains an irregular port (but not secure)
news server, messenger will not display anything in the folder pane; no mail
folders, no other news servers.

1.  Open a 4.x POP or IMAP profile.
2.  Add an additional news server with irregular port, but not a secure server.
    To do this:
       a.  File|subscribe.
       b.  Click Add Server|NNTP.
       c.  Type server name:  poisonivy.mcom.com
       d.  Change the port number field to: 888
       e.  Confirm.
       f.  You can even subscribe to a group on it (this is a real server port
as of the time I'm writing this bug.)
       g.  Confirm OK from subscribe dialog.
3.  Notice the server poisonivy.mcom.com:888 shows in your 4.x folder pane.
4.  Exit 4.x communicator.
5.  Migrate the profile to 5.0/seamonkey.
6.  Open to messenger.
    Notice there is a blank folder pane. No mail accounts, no news accounts.
7.  Open the Account Setup dialog and notice the servers' names do appear.
8.  Exit and relaunch 5.0 to messenger.
    Still nothing in folder pane.
    If I go back to 4.x and remove said news server, then I can migrate fine and
see all mail and (other) news accounts.

Note:  I realize we don't yet support non-standar port news servers (I think I
saw a bug out there but can't find it yet), but we should not crap out seeing
other accounts.  We should treat it like we currently do secure news servers --
they don't display, but they don't crap out everything else either.

Comment 1

[laurel]

the bug number I was searching for is bug # 14354.

Comment 2

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

migration is handled now.

when you migrate a server like poisonivy:543, you'll get prefs like this:

user_pref("mail.server.server13.directory", "/home/seth/.mozilla/seth/News/serve
r13");
user_pref("mail.server.server13.hostname", "poisonivy");
user_pref("mail.server.server13.max_articles", 50);
user_pref("mail.server.server13.newsrc.file", "/home/seth/.newsrc-poisonivy:563"
);
user_pref("mail.server.server13.notify.size", 1000);
user_pref("mail.server.server13.port", 563);
user_pref("mail.server.server13.type", "nntp");

but currently the back end isn't calling GetPort() on the incoming server and
using that value.

I'm working on that now.

marking this bug fixed.

Comment 3

[laurel]

Previous problem with migration of irregular port news server is fixed.  Prefs
now migrate for irregular port news servers as Seth described above.

OK using 1999-11-01-08 m11 commercial build linux 6.0
OK using 1999-11-02-10 m11 commercial build NT 4.0
migration currently not working on mac

Comment 4

[laurel]

OK using 1999-11-04-08m11 commercial mac OS 8.5.1