211444 - Unable to post or reply to newsgroups at nntp://news.blueyonder.co.uk since upgrading moz.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[John Ochiltree]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Posting to newsgroups at nntp://news.blueyonder.co.uk stopped when I downloaded
and installed the latest release candidate. I get no error messages. I do get
the progress bar and it looks as if it's working correctly but messages are not
appearing in the newsgroups.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reply to a news item
2.OR - post a news item
3.

Actual Results:  
Looked as if it had worked but doesn't appear on the newsgroup. Postings from
other usenet users seem OK.

Expected Results:  
Display the news post

Loses the content of the sent message.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

A simple question : how do upgrade Mozilla ? Overwriting a previous mozilla or not ?

If you overwrite a previous version, there can be strange bugs.

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

This bug was related to an overwriting installation. I helped reporter by mail,
and now it works.

Closing bug as invalid.

Comment 3

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

Verified INVALID.