96640 - Follow up to Poster does not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 3745

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Christian Feldhausen]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080110

When replying to newspost with a "follow up to poster", the new message is sent
to a newsgropup called poster. Obviously this doesn´t work and 
the Messagebox "A News (NNTP) Error occured: posting failed (unknown newsgroup
poster)" appears.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Search for a newsgroup posting with follow up to poster
2.reply to this posting without changing the recepient.


Actual Results:  A posting is send to a Newsgroup "poster"

Expected Results:  The reply should be sent to the author of the original
newspost, using the email-adress given in the "from:" of the original posting

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->MailNews

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

Christian, this is already implemented.

But your build is too old. Try downloading today's nightly and report back
whether it works.

Comment 3

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3745 ***

Comment 4

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verified dup.