237786 - Can not do 'Cancel Selected Messages' on multiple selection.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[u81239]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

If you select a single message on a newsgroup, you are given the option 'Cancel
Message' in the context menu. This is ok. If you select multiple messages, the
option 'Cancel Selected Messages' appears. When you select it however, it
complains with the message 'You can only cancel one article at a time'.

~Grauw

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select 2 newsgroup messages
2. Choose Cancel Selected Messages in context menu

Actual Results:  
Complains: 'You can only cancel one article at a time'

Expected Results:  
Either should not offer the option or should just cancel multiple messages.

Comment 1

[u81239]

p.s. this occurs in Thunderbird, do not know about the Seamonkey mail component,
but my guess is that it shares the same code.

~Grauw

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

There must be an older instance of this one. It's mentioned in bug 140461, but
without a bug number. Something similar is reported in bug 180063.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[u81239]

This is either a valid bug, or there is an older instance of it, mentioned in
comment 2, in which case this should be resolved as a duplicate...

~Grauw

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

Could you please try to reproduce it with SeaMonkey 1.0b or newer? Thanks.

Comment 6

[Peter Weilbacher]

I did extensive Bugzilla search and couldn't come up with a dupe. It still happens with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032601 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre.

Both SM and TB use both cancelNewsMsgCmd.label and cancelNewsMsgsCmd.label in their mainWindowOverlay.xul. Really weird to have a seperate string for an operation that is shot down later when one should instead not show that menu item at all or grey it out.

Comment 7

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

So, when bug 250141 is fixed, cancelling multiple messages will not be an option.