344849 - can't open news url properly - tries to use corrupted newsgroup account

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64142

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 (20060516)

When clicking a link like, for example, <news:comp.arch> in a mail or newsgroup message, TB asks me if I want to subscribe to it (OK), then displays a warning message "Address Not Found - news could not be found. Please check the name and try again." After this, when I check the account settings, I can see a new newsgoup account was created, named "news", with server name = "news", though I allready have a full working news-server configurated. Sometimes, opens the new account wizard at TB start after this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on any link like <news:comp.arch>
2. answer "yes" to the dialog box "Subscribe to ... ?"

Actual Results:  
Displays : "Address Not Found - news could not be found. Please check the name and try again." and tries to create and use a new news account for subscribing this newsgroup.

Expected Results:  
1) Check if I allready subscribed this NG in an existing news account; if yes, open it.
2) If not, ask me wether i want to subscribe or not.
3) If i want to, ask me wich existing newsgroup account i want to use for this NG, or if i want to create a new newsgroup account for this. [Better would be the ability to choose a default newsgroup account in the account settings, then trying to use it for each new subsbribing]

Comment 1

[steg]

This bug seems very close to Bug 327885 (summary: News:// URIs without default server fail to invoke Account Wizard).

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

This might be a symptom of bug #224335.  

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Although this should be a dupe of bug 327885 based on the symptoms the Expected Results section seems to indicate that the OP would be happier with bug 64142 as a dupe point.