Closed Bug 23193 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Problems on default News server

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Backend
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: huang, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

Since today's build is not good, I used 2000-01-04-09-M13 commercial build for
reproducing this problem:

If I use different news server name for the default, problems will occur.

Set up info & procedures:
1) Used original default news server: news
2) Change default "news" to "news.mozilla.org"
3) Change back to "news"

Actual Result: These two news server will subscribe the same newsgroup after I
change the default news server:

News -> subscribe "netscape.test"
news.mozilla.org -> subscribe "netscape.test"
OR
News -> subscribe "zz"
news.mozilla.org -> subscribe "zz"

Expected Result: Should subscribe different newsgroups as following:
News -> subscribe "zz"
news.mozilla.org -> subscribe "netscape.test"

Additional Info:
It seemed that there was problem regarding the default news server.

I am thinking maybe the fix from bug#21607 cause this problem, but maybe I am
wrong...

I copied bug#21607 Laurel & my comments which regarding to the default news
server problems as following:

Bug#21607:

------- Additional Comments From laurel@netscape.com  1999-12-13 16:06 -------
The message which Karen is seeing about postings not being allowed in the junk
group is likely happening because the posting is really being delivered to
news.mozilla.org instead of poisionivy.  (The junk newsgroup on news.mozilla.org
is reserved for a special use.)  So, there is some other problem(s) underlying
here for further investigation.

------- Additional Comments From huang@netscape.com  1999-12-13 17:43 -------
Additional info after discussed with Laurel.
My news [default] from 4.7 was: news.mozilla.org.
For some reason, the 5.0 is always trying to pickup the default news' newsgroup
(ex: junk), so that's why the error 'A News (NNTP) error occured: Postings to
"junk" are not allowed here' came from the default (Laurel & I are guessing...)
I am trying to narrow down for this problem...I think that I need to do more
investigation on this bug....(Thanks Laurel for providing more information to
me!!)
Sorry. I forgot to mention that I edited the default server from "news" to
"news.mozilla.org" on 4.7 profile manager before migrate to 5.0...maybe this bug
should be logged for 4.7.... but it caused problem on 5.0 if this not fix on
4.7. Maybe it should be a way (Laurel said maybe should be in account setup)to
avoid people editing the default on 5.0, too.
Please refer to bug#14295 for more detail.
I copied bug#14295 Laurel's comments as following:

------- Additional Comments From laurel@netscape.com  2000-01-05 18:18 -------
News/NNTP server names were not editable in 4.x -- are we changing this for 5.0?
If so, will there be any rules or changes surrounding this to prevent weirdness
in news/NNTP files on disk?  For instance, if we edited a news/NNTP server name
would we create a new host-<server> directory or just edit the name of the
existing one?  I suppose this might be dependent on how we're doing
subscribe/newsgroups lists... anyway, please advise us when the time comes how
news/NNTP servers will be affected.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
QA Contact: huang
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
In order to investigate and try to narrow down this problem,
I tried on today's WinNT 1-6-09-M13 commercial build -- and I am not able to
reproduce this problem again....no matter how, I will keep an eye on it and
for the News/NNTP server names' editable or should display error message....
please refer to bug#14295. Thanks. Marking as workforme!
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Summary: [BLOCKER]Problems on default News server → Problems on default News server
Marking as Verified.
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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