272426 - Use SSL-encrypted news connection to news-server which was once unencrypted does not work.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Edgar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I connect to a news server which accepts both SSL and non-SSL connections (both
with different newsgroups!! That's why I am able to detect the problem). When
creating a news-account to server news.company.com and browsing the newsgroups
(Manage newsgroup subscriptions), but not subscribing and later on switch to
SSL-connection, Thunderbird keeps showing me the unencrypted newsgroups (even
after restarting Thunderbird). When I create a newsgroup account and enable SSL
connection before even browsing the newsgroups, everything goes fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create news-connection to a news-server
2. Click "Manage newsgroup subscription" and find all present newsgroups
3. Return to account settings
4. Enable "Use secure connection (SSL)" in server settings of your newgroup account
5. Click "Manage newsgroup subscription" and find all present newsgroups
6. You'll find still no lock icon (which should appear because of
SSL-connection) in front of account name. Next to this, still unencrypted
newsgroups are shown. After restarting Thunderbird, the lock icon is in fact
shown, but still the unencrypted newsgroups are shown (again: I can detect this
because our news server serves both SSL and non-SSL connections each with their
own different newgroups)

Actual Results:  
Already described

Expected Results:  
Show encrypted newsgroups.

Comment 1

[Edgar]

Problem exists with both Thunderbird 0.8 and 0.9 on both Windows and Solaris.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you see only the unencrypted newsgroups or both ?

Comment 3

[Edgar]

Only unencrypted newsgroups are shown.

Just tested this with 1.0 on Windows. Problem still seems to exist.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

and you did a "refresh" in the subscribe dialog ?

Comment 5

[Edgar]

Nope. Just tried, but even after a refresh, the unencrypted newsgroups are still
shown and not the encrypted ones.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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