From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 BuildID: 2002041711 After having set a second news server, totaly independent from the first one, posting news on both server became impossible. Reading the threads an sending mail through other mail accounts was still possible, but when trying to post a news, Mozilla would reply "a NNTP error occured : the group 'groupname' is not valid". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set a news account 2.Set another news account 3.Enjoy the bug 4.Unset the second news account (one account is left) 5.Everything is back to normal Expected Results: It should have been poosible to post news on both news servers

Related to/DUP of bug 34911 - check out the comments in there.

Make that bug 54911. The reason why this is happening is if you have 2 servers setup, and you are reading one group, but it's not available on the other group, we still try to post to the 1st group, therefore the error.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54911 ***

verified. thanks for the fast response.

see also bug 80542