254283 - must click twice on newly subscribed newsgroup to get messages

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

steps to reproduce:
- right click on a newsgroup
- click subscribe
- pick some newsgroup and subcsribe to it
- click ok

- now, click on the new newsgroup in the mail window
- the newsgroup get selected, but no news messages are downloaded, and no count
appears next to the newsgroup name
- optionally click "get msg". Now, the newsgroup turns bold, and a message count
appears next to it. no messages are downloaded.
- click another newsgroup
- click the newly subscribed newsgroup again. now, messages are downloaded.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this is a recent trunk or aviary build?

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Wasn't there a bug somewhere where someone wanted a pref for this behaviour?

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

trunk and seamonkey. sorry for not mentioning.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

there was a feature request that clicking on a newsgroup not get new headers -
someone implemented a pref for that. This is simply a bug, and it's a one time
only after subscribing bug. Fix upcoming.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

basically ignore the error that the .msf file doesn't exist when opening a
newsgroup for the first time, and tell the msg db code to create the db, if
missing.