283288 - News headers are initially downloaded only up to a certain date.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Curtis Clauson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

An initial header download of the given newsgroup only downloads header up to
2004-03-29 2:14 AM. After this, newly posted and received message headers can be
downloaded, but never the headers from the given date to the intitial download date.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to gmane.comp.java.netbeans.devel at news.gmane.org.
2. Start downloading all of the message headers.


Actual Results:  
No headers after 2004-03-29 2:14 AM are initially downloaded.

Expected Results:  
All message headers up to the current date should have been downloaded.

This is 100% reproducable. Resubscribing the newsgroup, recreating the server
account, and deleting the profile newsgroup and account files does not affect
this behavior. MSOE reads all the message headers from the newsgroup with no
problems.

It may be that the header download is being aborted due to a read error, like an
invalid message number. If this is so, TB should still create the header node,
but mark it as broken, and then continue with the rest of the header download.

Comment 1

[Curtis Clauson]

This behavior has been confirmed by at least one other in this thread in the TB
newsgroup:
  snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/cvgu2f$[e-mail]

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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