1765752 - NNTP server hostname change causes infinite "would you like to subscribe" popups

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: General, defect)

Description

[max]

Steps to reproduce:

• Create news account for news.mozilla.giganews.com
• Subscribe to mozilla.test
• Read some messages, add some tags
• In the account preferences change host name to news.mozilla.org
• Try to read more messages from the newsgroup

Actual results:

Thunderbird 101.0a1: severe troubles making account unusable

• Multiple popups "Would you like to subscribe to mozilla.test?" appears on each action
• After restart several "m.test" folders is shown for the account

Thunderbird 91: sudden lost of history

• State of messages (read, star, tags) are lost similar to the Bug #548966

Expected results:

Earlier received headers are preserved, new messages are fetched from the new host.

A several years old real life case: switch from news.gmane.org to news.gmane.io.

Comment 1

[Ping Chen [:rnons] (away)]

Attachment: Bug 1765752 - Newsgroup should still work after changing hostname. r=mkmelin

Because the news url still contains the old hostname, match both hostname and realhostname when finding server.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/57b510bfb7db
Newsgroup should still work after changing hostname. r=mkmelin

Comment 3

[max]

Thank you, I have not try hard, but I do not see the problem any more in the scenario I faced it previous time.