Closed
Bug 66018
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Subscribed Newsgroups and Local Folders migrate, but only appear on 3rd launch.
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect, P1)
MailNews Core
Networking: NNTP
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
mozilla0.9.1
People
(Reporter: jay, Assigned: cavin)
References
Details
(Whiteboard: [nsbeta1+])
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Win98SE - Mozilla Build 2001011904
News servers migrate, groups do not. Only the server names are present after
migration, subscribed groups are not, must re-subscribe.
QA Contact: esther → stephend
Are you referring to migration from Netscape 4.7x?
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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Yes, 4.76 specifically, sorry, I don't usually forget.
Comment 3•24 years ago
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yes, I see this too. this is a bad regression.
working on a fix now.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Comment 4•24 years ago
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all, I see this on linux too.
I think I've got the fix for windows, but still debugging why linux is broken.
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Comment 5•24 years ago
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I hate this bug. what causes this is probably causing #70494
I've got an idea of what is going on here, upping the priority.
Priority: -- → P1
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9
Comment 6•24 years ago
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handing migration bugs over to bhuvan.
Assignee: sspitzer → racham
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Updated•24 years ago
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Priority: P1 → P2
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9 → mozilla0.9.1
An update on this, it takes 3 times before I see my subscribed 4.x newsgroups
that were migrated into the folder pane. (this is observed with linux and
windows 2000 builds, migrated from 4.77).
changing scope of bug to reflect the fact that only on the 3rd launch after
doing a mozille.exe -installer (after using 4.x to subscribe to some newsgroups)
do we show your subscribed newsgroups.
Summary: Subscribed Newsgroups Fail To Migrate → Subscribed Newsgroups migrate, but only appear on 3rd launch.
Assignee | ||
Comment 10•24 years ago
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Yes, I did see the same behavior and logged it in bug #50567.
Comment 11•24 years ago
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Is this dependent on 50567? 50567 is originally about adding an extra Mail or
News directory. It seems from Cavin's comments in that bug that we don't handle
the situation where we migrate a News or Mail server directory that has been
edited from the original directory regardless of whether we add an extra Mail or
News directory.
If the 4.x user doesn't touch their directories do newsgroups and local folders
migrate correctly? I see some comments in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73768. Are these all dups?
No, in my experience, I never touched paths or directory structures. Simply
fired up 4.77, added some newsgroups, shut down. Then ran mozilla.exe
-installer and let it grab my 4.77 profile, ran with it, and on the 3rd time it
populated my subscribed newsgroup in the folder pane.
Assignee | ||
Comment 13•24 years ago
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The 'directories incorrect' problme in #50567 is one thing to fix but the real
problem is that after migration is completed you don't see the migrated folders
the first time you run the mail program. If I clicked on the News or Local
Folder account in the folder pane (ie, tried to expand the list) then I was able
to see the migrated folders (for both news and local folders) the second time I
ran the mail program. However, twice I had to run the mail program three times
in order to see the migrated folders.
#50567 is a separate problem to address and it looks to me that this bug is more
important to fix.
Comment 14•24 years ago
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*** Bug 73768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15•24 years ago
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adding Local Folders from 73768
Priority: P2 → P1
Summary: Subscribed Newsgroups migrate, but only appear on 3rd launch. → Subscribed Newsgroups and Local Folders migrate, but only appear on 3rd launch.
Assignee | ||
Comment 16•24 years ago
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Patch for fixing 'disappearing local folders and subscribed newsgroups' the very
first time mail is launched after migration process is completed is coming.
Assignee | ||
Comment 17•24 years ago
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Comment 18•24 years ago
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the nsNewsFolder.cpp fix is good.
several of the migration problems will be fixed when we hook the server up to
the account after we've set the server's local path, but before we've set the
copies and folders prefs for the account's identity. (see bug #31904)
I need to double check the patch and make sure we've done that in all cases
where we've created an incoming server, including movemail and when we
create "Local Folders" when we aren't migrating. (create a new profile, launch
mail, or create a new profile, launch msg compose)
I'll take a look at those cases on sunday. then I'd like to test this on mac
and linux. I think we'll be able to land on monday and then fix #81741
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Comment 19•24 years ago
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Seth, when you test this patch sunday on linux and mac can you also test #77211
(filter migration bug)) to see it's fixed by this patch. I just tried the patch
on windows and it seems to fix #77211. It's related to the folder path setting
problem just got fixed. It only happens on POP so just cretae a POP 4.x account,
add some filter rules and migrate the account. Thanks.
Comment 20•24 years ago
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*** Bug 62576 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21•24 years ago
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Comment 22•24 years ago
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this fix is looking good on the mac, too.
I just want to test linux, and some edge cases. we should be able to land
tomorrow.
Comment 23•24 years ago
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note to cavin:
the two places I fixed were for migrating a movemail account:
MigrateMovemailAccount()
and for when we create a "Local Folders" account:
CreateLocalMailAccount()
movemail a UNIX only thing, see http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/movemail if you
are curious. once my linux build is finished, I'll test the patch out.
if all goes well, we can land it for 0.9.1
Comment 25•24 years ago
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to elaborate:
for news, there was one fix to nsNewsFolder.cpp to prevent failure in the the
case where there wasn't a folder cache yet.
the other part of the fix was to change the order in which we set the servers
localpath, the order we set the identity's copies & folder prefs, and the order
we hooked up the server and identity to the account.
we need to hook the server to the account before setting the copies and folder
prefs on the identity (see bug #31904), but after we set the local path on the
server.
Verified FIXED, using news.mozilla.org (n.p.mozilla.mail-news),
news.webking.com.cn (test, and those international character newsgroups) and
with a custom, extra Local Folder of "Foo" all migrated on:
Windows 2000 2001-05-23-04
Mac OS 9.1 2001-05-23-08
RedHat 7.0 2001-05-23-08
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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