341892 - Newsgroup message is fetched again from the server when you reply to it.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Alessandro Staltari]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=thunderbird-1.5.0.4&os=win&lang=it

When you reply to a message on a newsgroup, the original message is fetched fom the news server again even if it was already downloaded and displayed to the user.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a newsgroup
2. Select a news message to view it
3. Click on "reply" button

Actual Results:  
Message is fetched again from the news server even if it was already downloaded.
Compose window will block until the message has been fetched.

Expected Results:  
Use the already downloaded copy of the message instead of fetching it again.

I think the message is downloaded again to include it as quoted text, but it should not be necessary. Moreover, if you try to reply to a message and it can't be fetched from the server the compose window will hang.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061226 Thunderbird/2.0b1 ID:2006122603

Comment 2

[Arkady Belousov]

(In reply to comment #0)

     Addition to original report: Composer (unlike front end) in TB 1.5.0.8 not only rejects to reuse cached messages content, but, vice versa, Composer gets header fields for Reply not from message (cached/redownloaded), but from index files (which may be inconsistent with server content - see bug 363815).

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

another cache issue?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Magnus, does this till happen?

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It doesn't seem so.