91535 - News message sent twice after SMTP failure

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Robert Ginda]

1. Set a bogus SMTP server to be your default
2. Compose a reply to a newsgroup, and cc: the original poster.
3. Hit send.
4. You should get an smtp error.
5. Correct your SMTP server.
6. Resend.
7. Check the newsgroup
   actual:  The message has been sent to the newsgroup twice.
   expected: The message gets sent to the newsgroup only once.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->news

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

really reassigning...

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

I did this:

1.  made my default SMTP server be bogus,
2.  composed a new msg to myself, with netscape.test CCd,

After I clicked send, I got an error msg warning me that the news msg had been
sent but not the email. So obviously if you correct the error and re-send, it
will send another copy to the newsgroup since the first time worked.

Marking INVALID, feel free to reopen if you disagree.

Comment 4

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

I might have to dig up the RFC, should we be allowing a POST to a NG from a
bogus SMTP server?  

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

As far as I know, we can't know whether a server is bogus before we failed to
post to it.

Comment 6

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

Nevermind, we don't need a valid SMTP server to post to news.  If you don't have
any mail accounts set up we use "null" for outgoing SMTP.  So, in this case,
it's tricky:

* We are throwing up the error only because sending a *mail* message needs a
valid SMTP host.

I'll check when I come into work next, what Outlook Express and 4.x do WRT a
bogus SMTP server and a valid mail address in the widget.

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

invalid...
sending to a newsground dont need a valid smtp.