64142 - when running a news:group url, pop up a dialog that allows a user to choose server

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

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

4.x would put the group on the default news server.  we don't have default news
servers yet.  even when we do, this would be a nice feature.

we could allow the user to pick a news server, or create a new one, or cancel.

obviously, the design still needs to be done.

the current behaviour is:

1) use the first news server FindServer() returns.  if there are none
2) use "news", and pop up the account wizard.  the user can change the hostname
in the account wizard.

Comment 1

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

accepting, marking future.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Attachment: Mockups of the windows required, in glorious wide-screen smell-o-vision ASCII art

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

*** Bug 264849 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[David E. Ross]

This is NOT a duplicate of bug #224335.  This bug refers to the situation when the user has not yet subscribed to a newsgroup.  In this case, the newsgroup does not exist in any server account.  

Bug #224335 refers to a problem when a user has already subscribed to a newsgroup.  Selecting a link to that newsgroup does not work even though the newsgroup appears in the list of subscribed newsgroups for a server for which an account exists.