194232 - Unable to send article to newsgroup if two mail/news windows are open

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[tblader]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021118
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021118

If reading mail in my Inbox and I click on a newsgroup in the mail/news sidebar
and open a second mail/news window, I am unable to post a message to the
newsgroup.  "Sending of message failed" is what mozilla popup says.

I can however send email.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open mail/news to Inbox
2. doubleclick a newsgroup in sidebar, or open newsgroup by clicking a link in
the broswer window (eg: news://192.168.1.1/admin)
3. attempt to post news article fails

Actual Results:  
mozilla popups a windows that says "Sending of message failed ..."

Expected Results:  
posted the news article to the newsgroup

this seems to be an issue in 1.3b as well

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[tblader]

This should actually be updated to read:
Unable to send mail to newsgroup from Inbox unless newsgroup is first selected
and expanded from the 'folders' pane.  

What seems to happen is Tbird will attempt to otherwise connect to the nntp
server on port 110 instead of 119 even though the pulldown for "newsgroup, to,
cc, bcc, reply-to, followup-to" has "newsgroup" selected.   This has been an
issue, on the Sun Sparc platform at least, for a couple years.

Unless this is actually a feature, or a duplicate of another bug, I would
recommend leaving this marked 'un-resolved'.


I just verified the behaviour in Tbird 1.0.6 20050722 and running snoop on
the Sun INND server.  steps to reproduce are below:

- select Inbox from Folders windows
- select File -> New message
- Click 'To:' pulldown arrow and select 'Newsgroup'
- address to the 'test' newsgroup (or another newsgroup existing on news server)
- enter 'test' for subject and testtest in body
- fire up snoop on news server and filter for client ip address and port 100 eg:
# snoop 10.10.10.34 port 110
- click 'Send' in Tbird and you will see your Tbird client attempt a POP3
connection to the newsgroup server

Comment 4

[Karsten Düsterloh]

I don't think it's OS dependent.
If you select your Inbox and start composing, the identity ("From") chosen is
that of the respective mail server, which is POP3 for you, I suppose. If you
send this message, it thus gets sent as mail - and which news server should it
have selected to send news to, anyway? I have several news servers configured
and choosing one randomly is most probably a bad idea...

Comment 5

[tblader]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I don't think it's OS dependent.
> If you select your Inbox and start composing, the identity ("From") chosen is
> that of the respective mail server, which is POP3 for you, I suppose. If you
> send this message, it thus gets sent as mail - and which news server should it
> have selected to send news to, anyway? I have several news servers configured
> and choosing one randomly is most probably a bad idea...
> 


I agree random would not be an ideal solution.  Trying to connect to a server on
port 110 when trying to *SEND* an email is incorrect anyhow.  That should be
port 25 in any case, but that is a completely different issue.  

This bugid has to do with functionality that used to be in the Mozilla codebase
prior to some flavor of 1.6 and has since disappeared for some reason.  Perhaps
a 'Set as Default' in the account settings should apply to the Newgroup account
as it does for Email accounts.  Currently that option is greyed out for news.

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?
(or Thunderbird v2.0.0.14 ?)

Comment 7

[tblader]

This seems to have been fixed in Tbird 2.0.0.14 as I am not able to reproduce the bug now.

Comment 8

[Jason Bassford]

No specific bug / patch referenced as the code fix.

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