582290 - Automatic fetching of new feed messages not happening

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Robert Kaiser]

Since yesterday, automatic fetching of new feed messages does not work any more in my trunk SeaMonkey, and I heard about the same problem from someone else, so this is not my build only.
I *suspect* this is a general newsblog failure and not just a SeaMonkey one, but I haven't heard from any Thunderbird trunk user if it works there yet.
I' subscribed to several feeds, my account is set to check for and download new messages every 15 minutes, which doesn't happen. Biff on a POP account works and an IMAP account seems to have downloaded the headers/messages alright. Also, manual right-click on a feed folder and checking for new messages works, but doing the same on the account "folder" doesn't seems to work, error console doesn't show any message that would point to the problem.

Comment 1

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

I can confirm this on Shredder. Since yesterday it doesn't updates the feeds automatically.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Just glancing at the push log for the last couple of days, the most obvious thing would seem to be the mailnews/local changes for the external api from bug 377319.

In actual fact this doesn't look right:

http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/96a50f5a6b2d#l10.16

-    supports = getter_AddRefs(allDescendents->ElementAt(index));
-    rssFolder = do_QueryInterface(supports, &rv);
+    supports = do_QueryElementAt(allDescendents, index);

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Yeah, that should probably be rssFolder as per the subsequent hunk.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I took a look at this with David & Neil over irc, and I've pushed a fix for it:

http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/10afe409fcdf

GetNewMail wasn't being called for the RSS feeds, which explains what was happening.

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

Works fine, thanks!