268516 - Virtual Folders: Reply To when reading NNTP messages in a virtual folder sends mail, doesn't reply to newsgroup

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam Meltzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041104 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041104 Firefox/1.0RC2

When reading NNTP messages in a virtual folder, simply doing a 'Reply' tries to
e-mail the user, rather than replying in the newsgroup. This is contrary to
behavior when reading NNTP messages normally. Reply should reply to the
newsgroup while Reply All should reply to the newsgroup and user's e-mail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a virtual folder that searches in an NNTP newsgroup
2. Read a message, and hit 'Reply'
3. It sets up an e-mail reply, not a newsgroup reply.



Expected Results:  
It should have replied to the newsgroup, just as if I was reading within a
newsgroup folder.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

WFM using today's TB branch build 2004111702-0.9. tested on a Mac running OSX
10.3.6.

Comment 2

[Adam Meltzer]

I'll verify this evening on my installation. My issue was with the 0.9 release
build.

- Adam

Comment 3

[Adam Meltzer]

I'm using the 20041117 nightly 0.9+ build and am still seeing this behavior. I
went so far as to nuke my Thunderbird settings and reinstall, and it didn't have
any effect.

When replying to a newsgroup post within a search folder, it replies to the
e-mail address, not the newsgroup. The search folder is contained in my Local
Folders folder.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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