60130 - Mail CC'ed to a newsgroup cannot be sent unless a news account/server has been set up --> a warning needed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** Observed with 11/8/2000 MN Win 32 build **

I hope this has been filed already. Here's a scenario that
may be encountered by a user. (I have.)

1. The user replies to a message by "Reply All". The original 
   message has been addressed to a mailing list, individuals and
   then CC'ed to a newsgroup.
2. The user has not yet set up a news account -- maybe he/she does
   not have news server access or does not care to read news.
3. Now the user composes a reply and presses "Send". But the composer window
   does not disappear and the message does not get sent. This is 
   true no matter how many times the user attempts to send a message.
4. The user can send it when the user deletes the newsgroup address on
   the CC line.

Now if you just happen to be replying to a message which
contains several addresses including a newsgroup name, average
users may not realize that this is what happened and how to
get around it, i.e. create a news account or delete the 
newsgroup name from the addressee list.

Since the message has to go to an NNTP server to be posted as a 
news article, this seems like an unavoidable problem under the 
circumstances. But we should at least bring up a warning dialog. 
The current situation will be totally confusing to an average user.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I think this may be a DUP (like you, I hope so, too).  I'll check.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I couldn't find a DUP of this bug, thanks for logging it.  

Comment 3

[Thomas]

Is this problem still existent in more recent Mozilla versions?
(I have no news access)

Comment 4

[timeless]

[e-mail]: you have no news access? what's blocking you from accecssing
news://news.mozilla.org?

Comment 5

[Thomas]

Attachment: response to timeless

In reply to comment #4: I can only test through my work connection, which
doesn't give me any news connection :(

Comment 6

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

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM -  message I get is "this account supports only email recipients"
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4