1760393 - Cannot create news account after clicking a news url

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Ping Chen [:rnons] (away)]

1. start with an empty profile
2. create a draft containing a news url, e.g. news://news.mozilla.org/[e-mail]
3. click the news url to load the message
4. try to create a news account for the server that contains the message, e.g news.mozilla.org

Bug:
Can not advance the Incoming Server page in the account wizard

Comment 1

[Ping Chen [:rnons] (away)]

Attachment: Bug 1760393 - Fix creating news account after loading a news url. r=mkmelin

• Introduce NntpUtils to find nntp server from prefs directly
• Reuse server not associated with any account when creating news account

Comment 2

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

Does the patch also fix the problem on Seamonkey or is additional work needed there?

See Also: → Bug 521861

Comment 3

[max]

Fixing this issue may be a step toward Bug 1756132.

Comment 4

[Ping Chen [:rnons] (away)]

Not sure about seamonkey

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/604dcc26b1c1
Fix creating news account after loading a news url. r=mkmelin

Comment 6

[max]

Now it works in the case of an attempt to open a message from command line (original scenario in the Bug 1758097). However I am really surprized that click on a link does not open the linked message, but it affects behavior described in the Bug #1756126.

Anyway thank you for the fix. It makes behavior of NNTP within thunderbird a bit more sane.