320110 - No "Check (get) new messages on startup" for a newsserver

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 350864

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[[:Aleksej]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5rc2 2005120115

The server is localhost:5000.

1. There is no "Check for new messages at startup" feature in a news account settings.

2. The server also doesn't show up in the menu of servers to get new messages from.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
A new account should exist (here "localhost" with "localhost:5000" server)

1. Go to a new account settings, Server settings. 
2. Look for the item described in first part of the bug Details.

1. Choose File->Get New Messages For  OR  press the arrow at the toolbar button "Get Mail"
2. Look for the news account in the list.

Actual Results:  
Both don't exist.

Expected Results:  
1. There is such checkbox for an e-mail server, should be for a news server, too.
2. The news account server should be in the list.

Debian testing/Etch, GNOME.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Same in 1.0.7.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 324220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See also bug 181256.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Fixed on trunk and 1.8.1 branch, with UI!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 350864 ***