255473 - having more than one RSS account

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

I'm not sure whether Thunderbird should allow more than one RSS account, but it
doesn't seem to do so correctly. I saw this on Asa's machine (running today's
tbird branch on WinXP) as well as on linux (2004081205-0.8, fedora 2).

1. start out with a single RSS account. name it, say, AAA in the Account Setup
wizard (no problem).

2. click Add Account in Account Settings, and add another RSS account. name it BBB.

results: after you click the Finish button in the wizard for BBB, it does not
show up in either the Account Settings pane or the folder pane.

if tbird allows only one RSS account, we should disable/remove the "RSS News &
Blogs" options in the Account wizard.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

oh, here's some wacky behavior --let me know if it should be spun off to another
bug.

3 after repeating the steps in comment 0, select AAA in Account Settings and hit
Remove Account.

4. click OK to confirm account removal, OK to return to main window. observed
the following JS error (not sure if related):

Error: msgFolder has no properties
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/msgMail3PaneWindow.js
Line: 1535

5. quit and restart tbird.

actual results: BBB is now listed in the folder pane!

expected: no other RSS account should be listed.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

I thought I filed this on myself already. This may be a dupe of that if I did.
right now you can have only one account although the wizard lets you think you
can create multiple accounts. 

the problem is that you can't have accounts with the same host name and user
name in the account manager. And every rss account has the same values for host
name and user name. 

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

after several queries I wasn't able to find an existing bug on this.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

I can repro this on Mac OS X 10.3.5 using 2004081303-0.8 bits.

don't even need to quit and restart to see the oddness in comment 1: on Mac,
just close the main tbird window, then reopen it (Window > Mail & Newsgroups
from menubar).

Comment 5

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Testing 20040830 -0.8 bits today, I saw the same behavior that sarah did, but I
didn't get the error message that she references in Comment 1.

Comment 6

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Strange things have happened to me while testing this today. I had previously
created another account, deleted it, but then it mysteriously reappeared and
seemingly wiped out my current RSS account.  When I restarted, my default RSS
account reappeared.

Comment 7

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Scott: Would like to move this one forward to 1.0.

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

It seems like there are two solutions here. First, and probably easiest to add
would be to simply block the creation of a second account of this type.
Alterntely, we could fix it so that a second account works. I think that if
we're hyping this as a Tbird 1.0 exciting new feature, then we can't ship with
this kind of brokenness.

Comment 9

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

patch from seth

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

fixed on 1.0 branch

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

I noticed that your checkin comment said add support for multiple RSS accounts.
why would one want more than one RSS account? --since there really isn't a
one-server mapping in a given RSS account.

with multiple RSS acct's, some questions crop up:

a. how should copying of feeds btwn RSS accounts work, if at all? if you get new
articles from one feed, should it also refresh the same feed in the other account?

b. how should moving of feeds btwn RSS accounts work, if at all?

c. should d'n'd of feeds btwn RSS accounts work?

Comment 12

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

a=asa for checkin to 1.8a5

Comment 13

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

xref bug 271257: feeds that were d'n'd into another RSS acct don't appear in
Manage Subcriptions, nor can they be refreshed.

Comment 14

[Scott MacGregor]

*** Bug 271336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed with 200412010x-0.9 on linux fc2 and mac os x 10.3.6. any bugs
resulting from this should be filed separately.