203581 - Cannot search NNTP messages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 92746

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Paulo Braga]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

Any search (either Sender or Subject) in a newsgroup yields an error message,
thus making the search function non-usable.
This is an old problem - always existed.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Focus on any newsgroup message
2. Click Tools | Search messages
3. Fill an arbitrary search criteria
4. Click Search

Actual Results:  
A window appears:
  Alert
  A News (NNTP) error occurred: Syntax error or bad command


Expected Results:  
Should have found messages according to the search criteria or informed there
are none.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

See bug 57630.  This seems to be a server problem.

Do other news reader programs work for the server you are trying?

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

See also bug 92746.
Netscape 4 searched in the local cache. Mozilla tries to search on the
server-side, but not all servcers support that.

Comment 3

[Paulo Braga]

Attachment: Ethereal capture (LIBPCAP format, but with .TXT extension)

Comment 4

[Paulo Braga]

Comment on attachment 121866 [details]
Ethereal capture (LIBPCAP format, but with .TXT extension)

Tried to search newsgroup messages with Outlook Express and it works.

Comment 5

[WD]

Some NNTP servers do not support searching commands.
The fact that you can't search is because mozilla isn't searching local cache
headers, which is bug 92746

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92746 ***

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup