37464 - news://host/article does autosubscribe, when it shouldn't

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

4.x did this, but we fixed it eventually in 4.5+

6.0 is doing the same bug, for different reasons.  should be easy to fix.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

moving to m18. 

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

these are all subscribe bugs.   accepting.

Comment 3

[Daniel Bratell]

*** Bug 40033 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

Just to clarify since clicking on a link with "news:alt.windows98" also 
automatically added the news group "alt.windows98" to the mail/news accounts.

This should not be the case. There should be a dialog asking the user if he/she 
wants to add this news group to his default news server. Or even better ask 
which news server to add it to!
[taken from bug 40033]

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed.

Comment 6

[laurel]

OK, I'm verifying this bug and will open some separate side issues.

Using 2000-05-31-08 commercial build, the news://host/article doesn't
autosubscribe the newsgroup.  Marking this verified.

However, here are some separate issues:
1.  news://host/article will indeed add the server if the server isn't already
configured for that profile
2.  news://host/article will open in the message pane instead of a message
window when following a link from the mail window
3.  news:group such as mentioned from henrik's last comments doesn't
autosubscribe the group, but goes through a series of errors which results from
us trying to translate the shortened/default url format to news://group and has
some issues.  This is largely attributed to the fact we don't have a default
news server in seamonkey. I'll try to tie to an existing bug where applicable
and log some of the errors separately for this particular mess.