User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 When I write a new url of a newsserver into the url line of the browser (eg. news://news.freenet.de/) the command fails. When I create it by the assistent in the mail/newsserver modul it works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Write in the url line of the browser: news://puce.geeks.org/ 2. A popup appears: Do you want to get a abbonnement of puce.geeks.org ? (in German: Wollen sie puce.geeks.org abonnieren?) 3. Push "ok" Actual Results: Warning-popup: news could not be found.... AND no newsserver is added. Expected Results: It has to add the new newsserver name puce.geeks.org to the list of newsservers in the mail-/news modul (it works, when I take the special assistent in the mail-/news modul).

Yes, according to my testcase at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/tests/sea-mn-newsgroup-function.html#URI, this should spawn the Account Wizard. Servers take the form of: news://servername.tld/ while groups take the form of: news:netscape.test while a full URL would be something like: news://news.mcom.com/netscape.public.test Confirming bug based on my experience with the 2003-08-12-04 bug. David, can you offer any assistance?

Hrm, this is broken in Netscape 7.1, too, which means that it's a probably with 1.4 or before.

It seems to me that "news" always wants to subcribe to a group on the default (first) news account if one exists. If no news account exists I see the dialog that "news" does not exists which means that it tries to resolve the host "news" not "news.freenet.de". If I remember correctly the news protocol is broken in a way that normally it is a simple url like news:group which always goes to the current news-server. mailnews handles it as a standard-url which possibly contains the host, an extended feature. My guess ... something in the uriloader ...

*** Bug 217738 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This fails even for existing news servers (brings up a blank web page, instead of the newsreader). Checking the three testcases in 1.7b: news://servername.tld/ <-- blank web page news:netscape.test <-- works news://news.mcom.com/netscape.public.test <-- works

Problem happens in OS/2 and WinXP also, I suggest OS->All and updating the summary to more accurately reflect this nasty bug...

sorry for the spam. making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs. filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Why was this changed to FIXED? It hasn't changed, as far as I can tell.

No it's not FIXED (no patch referenced as the fix). It does work for me though (tried ff3+tb2), so changing to WORKSFORME.

(In reply to comment #9) > It does work for me though (tried ff3+tb2) Maybe the product should be changed to Mozilla Application Suite, then?

Sorry, still a problem with ff and tb too. (You get the popup, but the server isn't added.)