18751 - [DOGFOOD][FEATURE] prefill compose when a newsgroup is selected.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

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

if the user has newsgroup selected in the folderpane, prefill the compose window
for news.

select "Newsgroup:" (instead of "To:") in the picker and
put the news url in the value area. (like
news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news)

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

I think just the group name would do :-)

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

*** Bug 18865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

*** Bug 20130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

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

fixing summary.  marking m13.  accepting.

Comment 5

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

I think this is dogfood, but I'm sure I'll get a pdt-

if I'm reading news, and I hit new message, we should be assuming I'm about to
post to the newsgroup I am reading, like 4.x does.

Comment 6

[leger]

Putting on the PDT- radar.

Comment 7

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

fixed.

Comment 8

[pmock]

changing qa assigned to [e-mail]

Comment 9

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

something that putterman pointed out, that will probably become it's own bug:

in 4.x, when we'd prefill compose, you'd just get the newsgroup name
in 5.0, when we prefill compose, you get a full uri.

like,

news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
news://sspitzer@news/mcom.linux

I'm ok with that, since it lets the user know explictly where they are about to
post to, but having just the newsgroup name will work, now that the code for
finding the server based on the newsgroup name is working.

comments?

Comment 10

[Karen Huang]

Yes. I notice this.
I also heard from Laurel said that the full URL can be used here.
For my opinion....from UI, I will prefer 4.x the way it was.

Comment 11

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

laurel is right, the full uri will work.

Comment 12

[Phil Peterson]

I think it's ok if the full URI works, but I think it's *way* too much syntax to
show the user all the time. I think we have to prefill with only the group name.

Comment 13

[pmock]

I logged bug 23249 and like to move this discussion to its own bug.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23249

Comment 14

[Phil Peterson]

Good call, Peter.

Comment 15

[pmock]

Verified as fixed on win32, linux, and macos using the following builds:
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/2000-01-05-16-M13/sea
monkey32e.exe
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/unix/linux_glibc/2.2/x86/2000-01-06-08-
M13/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/macos/8.x/ppc/2000-01-06-11-M13/mozilla
-mac-M13.sea.bin

I tested using the html mail editor and plain text mail editor.  I verified that
when you start a new message, the netscape full uri is automaticlly in the
address field and the address type is set to 'newsgroup'.
 example:
  news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.test

Comment 16

[Karen Huang]

Reopen this bug for Linux platform by using 2000-01-18-08-M13 commercial build:
Prefill compose is not working for today's commercial build when a newsgroup is
selected.

Comment 17

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

I think there are problems with message compose today, you may want to wait
until the respin.

Comment 18

[Karen Huang]

Yes. You are right!! There was bug#24228 opened for Mail/News compose messages'
problems.

Comment 19

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Yes, MsgCompose is totaly broken this morning. Nothing is initialized!!

Comment 20

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

I pulled brade's check in, and this works again.  marking worksforme.
when the respins come out, you find it to be working.

Comment 21

[laurel]

Works ok for me using:
2000-02-24-08 commercial build NT 4.0
2000-02-24-08 commercial build mac OS 9.0
2000-02-24-09 commercial build linux rh6.0

Since Peter is on sabbatical, I'll mark verified for him.