64800 - Deletion of news accounts don't delete newsrc files

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

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Summary:

We keep occuring newsgroup "foobar" after deleting a news account.

Here's how to reproduce:

1. Do the URL trick of entering news://foobar into the browser window.
2. Cancel out of the Account Wizard window.
3. Notice that you've created a server, News, with subscribed group foobar.
4. Go to Account Manager and delete server News.
5. Go back into Account Manager and setup a server news.

Expected Results:

You should just see an account News.

Actual Results:

We create News, and populate it with the foobar newsgroup.

NOTE:  If you delete the newsgroup by itself, it doesn't seem to come back.

Comment 1

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

Today's build 2001010904, Windows 2000.

Comment 2

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

Reading through bug 37454 (per laurel's suggestion) seems exactly like this
problem.  If we use the same code to add/remove newsgroups as we do with
folders, this is a DUP.

Comment 3

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

this might not be a duplicate.

it probably has to do with using the previous server's newsrc file.

Comment 4

[Sheela Ravindran]

change qa contact ->stephen

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

I'd argue this is a Account Manager bug because it has to do with removing the 
newsrc or other internal files when removing the account, which we currently 
not always do.

Racham and Cavin: What do you guys say about moving this to Account Manager 
(eventually duplicating it to bug 37454 which should handle this issue) ?

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

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 8

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Still exists on Trunk builds.

Comment 9

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1. Do the URL trick of entering news://foobar into the browser window.
> 2. Cancel out of the Account Wizard window.

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205
SeaMonkey/2.0.3] (release)

The behavior of these steps seems to have changed: I filed bug 555510.

***

For the purpose of this bug, one should simply create a newsgroup account through the Account Wizard.

Comment 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 SeaMonkey/1.1.19] (release)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205 SeaMonkey/2.0.3] (release)

1. Create a news account.
2. (Maybe list newsgroups in 'Subscribe'.)
3. Delete it.
3r. Remaining files in 'News' directory are (or can be):
{
servername\hostinfo.dat
servername.msf
servername.rc
}
at least, and maybe others.