296240 - Email to Newsgroup fails with A News (NTTP) error occurred: OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Steve Russie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

Email to Newsgroup fails with A News (NTTP) error occurred:  OK [CAPABILITY
IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN]bing.qcs.com IMAP4Rev1 2001.315 at {date}.
  (A print screen has been posted to
http://www.qcs-facts.com/qis/images/bug/tbirdbug.jpg).    If I compose a message
to a newsgroup, starting from my Inbox, I get this error.  If I compose the
message, and before sending, open a message in the newsgroup, the message sends
properly.

This was not a problem in netscape 7.1, but was intoroduced in netscape 7.2 and
Thunderbird 1.0. 

(I have only sent emails to our internally hosted newsgroups).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose Email to newsgroup (or forward/reply).
2. Send Email and get error.

This scenario works.
1. Compose Email to newsgroup.
2. Open message in the newsgroup
3. return to compose email window and send without error.
Email sent from the newsgroup (rather than from the inbox) also works fine.
Actual Results:  
Error message (see http://www.qcs-facts.com/qis/images/bug/tbirdbug.jpg)
appears, email is written to sent folder, but not to the newsgroup.

Expected Results:  
Email sent to sent folder and newsgroup.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

If i compose a message to a newsgroup from a mail account, i first get a warning
that newsgroups will be ignored and then a Sending of message failed error
(makes sense, since no recipient is left). So wfm with a current trunk build.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Actually with TB 1.0 it posts the message to the first newsgroup server it finds
this group on... (i tested with Mozilla trunk before).

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

And with TB trunk the Send button just throws:
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIStringBundle.GetStringFromName]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: XStringBundle :: getString :: line
17"  data: no]
Source File: XStringBundle
Line: 17
great ;)

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Ok, so WONTFIX, in current trunk builds it throws a error and doesn't send the
message at all. Instead you get a error that sending to a newsgroup will be
ignored (from a mail account). The error in current trunk is Bug 296703 and will
be resolved in Thunderbird 1.1