422673 - Thunderbird not handling news:// links

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031220 Fedora/3.0-0.40.cvs20080312.fc9 Minefield/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Fedora 8 package)

(originally filed as a Fedora bug# 417891)

Thunderbird does not handle news:// links internally.  It highlights the link by
default so they are clickable, but when clicked it identifies them as an HTML
document.  A URL handler dialog box is opened with a link to save the document
or open it in another application.  The correct behavior should be to open the
link within Thunderbird.  This behavior is written into Thunderbird (works on
non Redhat/Fedora platforms), so I'm guessing it's a compile/packaging issue or
some problem with the default preferences on Fedora.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 on Fedora 8 exhibits this issue.


How reproducible:
Start thunderbird, configure a newsgroup (NNTP) account type.  Go to a forum,
right-click any post to copy a message using and select Copy Message location. 
You can paste this link into another post, which will become clickable, but not
open within Thunderbird as it should.

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Comment from reporter on 2008-03-13 05:45 EST:
This still happens with 2.0.0.12 on Fedora 8, and I've also tested this time on
a RHEL 5 WS box with the same result.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Comment 1

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Most likely, this is a Fedora/RHEL problem, since it is set up properly for me on Debian (custom-built) and Windows.

Go to Edit -> Preferences -> General tab -> System Defaults header -> click on `Check Now';

Is TB listed as the default for Newsgroups? If not, then this is a RESO INVA bug. If yes, then something's wrong.

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

No response in three weeks -> RESO INCO. If you think this resolution was made in error, reply with your rationale.

Comment 3

[Matěj Cepl]

Yeah, either this was bogus, or it has been fixed meanwhile. Cannot reproduce anymore.

Comment 4

[Matěj Cepl]

Yeah, either this was bogus, or it has been fixed meanwhile. Cannot reproduce anymore.