184007 - [FEATURE] No way to preserve newsgroup messages permanently

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[richard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

I'd like to preserve some newsgroup threads permanently offline, but I can't 
add a folder to save them to under a news account. I just discovered that I 
can move posts to an email folder, but this is a clumsy workaround and I don't 
know what the implications might be in doing so.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a news server account, no "New Folder..." option.
2. Go to Message menu. No "Preserve Permanently" option.

Comment 1

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

Richard, are you aware of our Offline feature?

File | Offline | Download/Sync Now.  Click on 'Newsgroup messages', then click
the 'Select' button and choose which newsgroups you'd like to save offline.

Or are you referring to an export setting?

Comment 2

[Thomas Miller]

It would be nice to store the body of the news group message locally as an option
pre newsgroup server wether I am off line or not.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

if you pick a newsgroup as selected for offline (properties | offline | select this group for offline use, we will store messages you read permanently for offline use.