705471 - News url's open in a composition window

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

After the landing of bug 226890 clicking on a news link
example:
news://news.mozilla.org:119/[e-mail]
Results in a mail composition window with the contents of the target message as an .htm attachment.

My guess is that the links are being detected as mailto uri's

Expected result:
The newsgroup should just open, with the message displayed.

Comment 1

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Error console after composition window opens:
Error: '<error>' when calling method: [nsIContentHandler::handleContent] = <unknown>

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I've been unable to confirm this on Linux...

Comment 3

[David E. Ross]

Windows XP SP3
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0

I have seen this in Thunderbird 8, selecting a news: URI contained in the body of a newsgroup message.  Actually, I found this bug report when preparing to submit a new bug report on the same problem.  

On the other hand, selecting a news: URI on a Web page in SeaMonkey displays the message in SeaMonkey and not in Thunderbird.  (I don't use SeaMonkey as a newsreader; I use it only as a browser.)  That would be a different (new?) bug report.  Is comment #2 the result of selecting a news: URI via a browser and not via Thunderbird?

Comment 4

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Thunderbird 8 does not contain the enhancements in bug 226890
That bugs should allow newsgroup links to work (in TB11)

What I have just now discovered that, in fact some links work after I manually set TB as my default newsreader via Control Panel>>Internet options.(Winxp)

Some (probably malformed) news url's still open in a composition window, and I have yet to get a news link in the browser (Firefox) to open the message in a running Thunderbird.

David , you might be interested in reading through bug 226890
specifically https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226890#c78

I'll test further as time allows.

Comment 5

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Well, I spoke too soon that setting via control panel made some links work.
They did for a while, but now back to every link opening a compose window.
I'll try again tomorrow on a system that doesn't have a lot of stuff in MimeTypes.rdf

Comment 6

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

With TotalMessage extension installed, most News links work as expected (at least the links that I tested) Another +1 for TotalMessage.
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