272499 - Thunderbird is closing connection to the news server and is not restoring it itself when wanting to get some data from there

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Alexey Solovjev]

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

This issue is looking as another side of already reported bugs with getting or
saving information for messages when news reader is offline. See #243031,
#248483 and more earlier #159988.

If the news group is selected for offline reading, sounds that Thunderbird is
closing connection to the news server after 2-3 minutes. After that period some
operations with this newsgroup and its messages, e.g. saving of attachments as
files, are working incorrectly. See steps below.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select some news group for offline reading, select it as active for the news
server, download (sync) messages from it; do not switch Thunderbird to offline mode
2. Select a message with attachment
3 [review]. Wait ~2-3 minutes
4. Try to save attachment as a file
5. Try to get message's source by pressing Ctrl-U
6. Reply to this message (the message can be without attachment in this case)
and try to send your message
Actual Results:  
For (4):  Thunderbird reports:

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 Error!

newsgroup server responded:That article has been deleted

Perhaps the article has expired
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For (5): The blank window is opened

For (6): Thunderbird reports

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A News (NNTP) error occured: Posting failed, you're not allowed to post to that
group (<group name>) 
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and after closing this error box

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Sending of message failed.

The message could not be posted because connecting to the news server failed.
The server may be unavailable or is refusing connections. Please verify that
your news server setting is correct and try again, or else contact your network
administrator.
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Expected Results:  
For (4) and (5): Thunderbird should not try to access the news server because
the entire message including its attachments have been downloaded and available
already, or Thunderbird must restore connection to the server itself

For (6): Thunderbird must restore connection to the server itself

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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