6655 - can only post to news.mozilla.org

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

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

you can only post to newsgroups on news.mozilla.org, and of course,
news.mozilla.org needs to be one of your news hosts.

I need to find out how 4.x determined which newshost to post to.  was it the one
selected?  was it the default news server?

Comment 1

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

marking m7 and accepting

Comment 2

[lchiang]

Good release note candidate for M6.  I'll notify verah when there is a bug
report for M6 release note items.

Comment 3

[lchiang]

<I've notified verah in her m6 release note bug report to add this.>

Comment 4

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

fixed.

To post to other news hosts, you need to set the default nntp server pref:
"network.hosts.nntp_server"

Currently, the default value of this pref is "news.mozilla.org". (see bug #8053)

So to post to news://news/mcom.test, you need to add this to your prefs:
user_pref("network.hosts.nntp_server", "news");

I still need to work with rhp so that if you address a message to:

news://host/group
news://group
host/group
group

it will work.

right now, only "group" works, because the mime code thinks the others are
errors.

Comment 5

[lchiang]

<Note: I'll update verah when M7 release notes are there to remove this bug from
the notes>

Comment 6

[lchiang]

Updated release notes for M7 (bug 7909) to remove this reference from the
Additional Mail Functionality section where this bug is listed.

Comment 7

[scurtis]

Verified on 6_14 Linux. Onwards to Mac/Win....

Comment 8

[scurtis]

Mac verification contingent on fix to 8145.

Comment 9

[scurtis]

Verified. Did Mac, Win testing on 6_16 build.