208013 - Get messages/get msgs on newsgroup displays no new messages on server after new message headers are displayed

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Felix Miata]

Test builds: 2003052113 OS/2 trunk; OS/2 1.4rc1; W32 1.4rc1

Longer summary: fetching messages on newsgroup displays "There are no new
messages on the server" as and after arriving/new message headers are displayed.
"No new messages" should only display if there were in fact no new messages.

To reproduce:
1-Open any newsgroup
2-Sort headers by messages ascending
3-Scroll to bottom of header pane
4-Wait for new messages to arrive on server
5-Click get msgs

Actual results:
1-New message headers display in header pane
2-"There are no new messages on the server" displays briefly on the status bar
3-Message area of status bar goes blank

Expected results
1-New message headers load in header pane
2-As message headers are loaded, a status message somewhere indicates
downloading progress
3-On completion, message somewhere indicates # of messages that "arrived"

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Maybe a dupe of bug 20548?

Once all messages are loaded, the Get New command clears the New flag for all items, so "no new items" is arguably correct.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

I have not found this problem in earlier versions, only in 2.5. I had 2.4.1 installed, with myltiple email and newsgroup accounts set up and working. I downloaded 2.5 and installed it as an update. Mail still worked perfectly, but  I then found that although newsgroup headers displayed, and new headers were fetched as expected, I could not see the content of the messages, previously read or new.

Running a Wireshark trace suggested that whilst the headers were being retrieved, nothing was getting the message content.

Uninstalling 2.5, and reverting to 2.4.1 fixed the problem.