299858 - forwarding message to newsgroup fails (sent to port 143 instead of 119 on news svr

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Don Hayward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)

I try to forward an email message to a newsgroup (with or without attachment) by
chosing newsgroup in the to filed and entering a valid newsgroup. I click send.
 The send fails.  The error message says the server rejected the connection. 
Using ntop on the server to watch incoming packets I see that they are sent to
port 143 (smtp) rather than 119 (nntp).  Seems like the wrong thing to do.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See above.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Connection rejected by the news server.

Expected Results:  
Message posted to newsgroup.

Comment 1

[tblader]

Same here only on SUN Sparc. Tbird attempts a connect to port 25 on news server.
 If newsgroup is selected and then Inbox is selected, message is then sent.
Is this normal, expected/intended behaviour?  

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

can you attach or e-mail me your prefs.js file? This works fine for me...Have
you tried a recent trunk thunderbird build, like 1.1a2?
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.1a2

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

I think the fix for bug 234186 makes this impossible. That fix is only on the
trunk, not in 1.0x. Can anyone try a trunk build and verify this? I'm marking
wfm in the meantime...Please re-open if you can reproduce it on the trunk.