82535 - cannot send news messages on good server when there exists groups on a bad server

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Tim Wunder]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010522
BuildID:    2001052204

My ISP is having problems with their main newsserver. It keeps asking for
authentication, even though it never has before, and it won't accept my user
code and password. So, I've had to use their alternate newsserver to read
messages while they figger out whats wrong.

With the offending newserver left configured in Mozilla, I can't post messages
to the good server. When I try to post, I get requests for authentication from
the bad server, as if I were trying to download articles from it. When I cancel
out of the authentication dialogs, the reply does not send and I cannot save it
to Drafts. I have to cancel. After cancelling, Mozilla crashes.

Two talkbacks were sent after the crash, the IDs are TB30823738X and TB30809639Q 

I've since removed the offending newsserver and can now post to newsgroups.
Unfortunately, I cannot duplicate the errors or provide NNTP protocol logs, as
requested on n.p.m.mail-news by [e-mail]. I believe I need to be
subscribed to newsgroups to get the error. Since the newsserver isn't working, I
cannot subscribe to newsgroups. If there were a way to make Mozilla think I'm
subscribed to newsgroups on that server, I could probably duplicate the error.


Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Possible Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have your ISP hose up your newsserver
2. Set up a new newsserver, leaving the original configured
3. Try to post a message to a group on the new newsserver.

Since I can't do Step 1 anymore, I can't duplicate the error.

Comment 1

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

Attachment: Talkback ID: TB30809639

Comment 2

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

At the very least, you've crashed, and I've got a crash, good enough for me to
confirm.

Comment 3

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

I mean, "I've got a stack trace".  Sorry about that.

Comment 4

[Håkan Waara]

If there is a more general (and simpler) testcase that does not involve hosing
up my ISPs newsserver, maybe we could get some traction here. ;)

Comment 5

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

I suspect this bug is another manifestation of bug 54911.  

Mozilla sometimes contacts the wrong server when you have multiple NNTP servers
configured, and you're trying to post.  

Could it be that these unexpected authentication requests are actually coming 
from a different server than the one to which you were trying to post?

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]]

I see what may be the convolution of several bugs:

1. The same underlying problem as bug 230899.
2. A crash based on... hard to tell.
3. A compose issue.

Does anyone still see this problem? If no one does, this bug'll be RESO INVALID in 3 weeks...

Comment 9

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

That last comment should have said "INCOMPLETE"