Closed Bug 264849 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Can't subscribe to a newsgroup by clicking on a "news:group.bla.bla" link

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64142

People

(Reporter: jvidal, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041017 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041017 I can't subscribe to a newsgroup by clicking on a link like "news:group.a.b.c" or by entering "news:group.a.b.c" in the address bar, like in good old NS 4.8. Instead, mozilla tries to connect to a server called "news". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Click on a link of the form "news:group.a.b.c" or enter "news:group.a.b.c" (whithout the quotes" in the address bar 2. 3. Actual Results: Mozilla tries to connect to a server called "news" Expected Results: It should have subscribed me to the group on my actual news server
oops, I meant "current news server"
pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug 64142 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64142 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Component: MailNews: Subscribe → MailNews: Message Display
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