273081 - News Server does not ask for User/password

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267486

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Weingartner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: version 1.0RC1 (20041201)

I have a newsgroup account that requires authentication.  I setup the server and
check the "Always request authentication when connecting to this server."  When
I connect to download the groups, I get an error that says "A News (NNTP) error
occured: Aborted by user" with just an OK button.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a new Newsgroup account for news.comcast.giganews.com
2.  Check the "Always request authentication when connecting to this server" box
3.  Right click on newsgroup account and select "subscribe"

Actual Results:  
Receive the "A News (NNTP) error occured: Aborted by user"

Expected Results:  
Prompted for a userid and password and then logged into the newsgroup server and
retrieved the list of accounts.

Here is a section of the NNTP log file I created around where it is trying to
log in:

0[274758]: (20d3c70) setting busy to 0
0[274758]: (2191288) setting busy to 0
0[274758]: (2191288) creating
0[274758]: (2191288) initializing, so unset m_currentGroup
0[274758]: (2191288) setting busy to 1
0[274758]: (2191288) opening connection to news.comcast.giganews.com on port 119
0[274758]: (2191288) setting busy to 1
0[274758]: (2191288) ParseURL
0[274758]: (2191288) fullPath = /*
0[274758]: (2191288) m_messageID = (null)
0[274758]: (2191288) group = *
0[274758]: (2191288) commandSpecificData = (null)
0[274758]: (2191288) m_key = -1
0[274758]: (2191288) Next state: NNTP_RESPONSE
0[274758]: (2191288) Receiving: 200 News.GigaNews.Com
0[274758]: (2191288) Next state: NNTP_LOGIN_RESPONSE
0[274758]: (2191288) Next state: NNTP_SEND_MODE_READER
0[274758]: (2191288) Sending: MODE READER
0[274758]: (2191288) Next state: NNTP_RESPONSE
0[274758]: (2191288) Receiving: 480 authentication required
0[274758]: (2191288) Next state: NNTP_BEGIN_AUTHORIZE
0[274758]: (2191288) ask for the news username
0[274758]: (2191288) Next state: NNTP_ERROR
0[274758]: (2191288) ClosingConnection
0[274758]: (2191288) Sending: QUIT

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this is fixed in newer builds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267486 ***