283030 - will not allow erasing outdated or uninteresting news messages on own PC

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[erikts]

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

If I try to select a news message and hits 'Del' I receive a Alert message: This
message doesn't appear to be from you. You may only cancel your own posts, not
those made by others.

Does that mean that I cannot do any housecleaning on the newsgroups received on
and stored on my machine?



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. receive any news group's messages;
2.  indicate one message which is afterwards shoved "read"
3.    press Del-key

Actual Results:  
Alert message given in "Details" above is shown,  nothing els happens

Expected Results:  
allowed a deletion of selected message(s)

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

You are trying to cancel the post on the newsgroup server itself if you hit delete.