309336 - Each newsgroup server should have its own default folders

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Watson Steen]

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When expanding a newsgroup server in the left hand pane in the main Thunderbird
window there are Unsent, Drafts, Sent and Trash folders. Only the newsgroups
that you subscribe to on that particular newsserver is displayed.

When looking at the "Copies & Folders" pane under Account Settings it defaults
Sent, Drafts and Templates to "Local Folders".

I do not use "Local Folders" at all (actually I would like to get rid of it, but
that's another issue). Furthermore I would like Thunderbird always to store my
drafts and what I send "inside" that account from where I am sending it (that's
how I organize my many e-mail accounts).

Therefore I would like to request that the four "default" folders where to be
added also to newsgroup servers (one set per server - not one per subscribed
newsgroup of cause). At the moment I can't think of any reason why other people
would not like these folders. But if you have a good reason why they should be
optional, then this should of cause be possible.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Thomas Watson Steen]

(In reply to comment #0)
> When expanding a newsgroup server in the left hand pane in the main Thunderbird
> window there are Unsent, Drafts, Sent and Trash folders. Only the newsgroups
> that you subscribe to on that particular newsserver is displayed.

Sorry... In line two above, I of cause ment that "there are NOT Unsent, Drafts,
Sent and Trash folders."

/thomas

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I am of the opinion that this should be WONTFIX for the following reasons:

1. You can set the sent folder to be any folder, not just the ones with "Sent" names. So you can have Local Folders -> "news sent messages".
2. A newsserver's folders represent newsgroups; breaking this distinction is difficult at best under the current setup.

Actually what is really needed is a sort of LATER resolution that used to exist.

Confirming since it's an enhancement.