97598 - Expired articles can't be removed

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[3APA3A]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080110

If I re-enter some newsgroup after long time I can see a lot of old articles.
While attempting to access this articles I get:

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-


Error!
newsgroup server responded:Bad article number

Perhaps the article has expired

<9asiog$218o$[e-mail]> (532)

Click here to remove all expired articles

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

"Click here to remove all expired articles" referes to URL like
news://3APA3A@news/nnov.news?list-ids

Click to this URL opens new window. Nothing happens. I still see expired articles.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to any newsgroup (online mode), read some articles
2. Visit same newgroup after few weeks (then articles will expire)


Actual Results:  You'll see expired articles

Expected Results:  You will not see expired articles or you are able to remove
expired articles from newsgroup

Probably this problem closely relates to Bug ID 72820. But the problem lies in
fact expired messages not actually deleted even if i close Mozilla and open it
again.

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

This is a dup.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72820 ***

Comment 3

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

verified dup.

Comment 4

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

Wait a minute, not so fast (sorry for verifying so quick...)

3APA3A says:
Probably this problem closely relates to Bug ID 72820. But the problem lies in
fact expired messages not actually deleted even if i close Mozilla and open it
again.

so, seems like a different problem to me.  re-opening.

Comment 5

[Mike Young]

Confirming. I think the bug here is that expired articles in newsgroups dont get
deleted even after Mozilla knows that they are expired. I'll play around in the
newsgroups soon and try to see what NS4.x did and why old messages build up in
the newsgroups. (shouldn't there be some way to delete unread nonexisting
message headers after a certain amount of time?)

Comment 6

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

*** Bug 115202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Felix Miata]

What I don't understand is why when the newsgroup is selected that Mozilla
doesn't automatically display headers of only messages actually available from
the server. I realize the the selection causes the previous set of retrieved
headers to be redisplayed, but since it also looks for new ones to add to the
display, it should also be looking for expireds to remove. IOW, it shouldn't
need to be told to remove the expireds. It should be done automatically. It the
bodies aren't available, there is no apparent purpose served by displaying those
headers.

4.x behaves the same in this regard, except that clicking on the link actually
removes the expired headers, and focus isn't switched to a browser window when
it is clicked.

Comment 8

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Can this really be there's NO WAY to delete headers, expired or not?!

I gave up using Mozilla's News twice before because I couldn't find it, but
always figured it was there somewhere... this is like not having a 'delete'
command in Mail. How can this be?! Major perf issue. Major disk space issue.
Major usability issue.

Every news agent I've ever used has done this BY DEFAULT on exit. AND had an
easy way to do it while it was running. How could it possibly not exsist in Mozilla?

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

clicking on the link works now, right?

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

Stephen, can you test this and dup/invalid it if it works. It works fine for me
(clicking on the link).

Comment 11

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

wfm with build 2002-02-18-03, but then I never could reproduce his problem (but
I believe/d him).

Comment 12

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

marking wfm with build 2002-02-18-03.  3APA3A, if you still see this with a
current nightly, please re-open with the build ID and additional comments.

Comment 13

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

really marking wfm.

Comment 14

[Felix Miata]

Bug 115202 reopened, since Bugzilla won't let me reopen this one.

2002021808 OS/2

Comment 15

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

news://news.mcom.com/alt.binaries.cd.image.highspeed?list-ids works for me with
build 2002-02-26-03 on Win2k.

Comment 16

[Felix Miata]

Not working as of 2002022416 for OS/2. See bug 115202.
news://news.atlantic.net/alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan?list-ids

Comment 17

[Felix Miata]

Also not fixed in 2002022616 for OS/2.

Comment 18

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

Mike Kaply - can you confirm whether this is broken on OS/2 or not? I don't have
access to a box, thanks.

Comment 19

[shattered]

Still broken in TB 3.1.10.

Comment 20

[Miroslav Policki]

Bug confirmed in build 20120321081626 on Win 7 x64.