Bug 490980

Summary:	cannot compose new newsgroup message
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	mbarnes, mcrha
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Description David Woodhouse 2009-03-18 18:48:28 UTC

I don't know how to start a news thread. I can _reply_ to a post, and I get a composer window with a Post-To: header filled in appropriately.

But if I try to create a new message, even if I select my 'news' account as the source, I can't enable the Post-To: header in the composer. It remains greyed-out.

Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2009-03-28 02:07:43 UTC

Right, the composer needs to be smarter about managing its header fields.  They currently get enabled/disabled permanently when the composer window is created instead of reacting to which type of account you've chosen.  So unless you're replying to a newsgroup post (or using Post New Message to Folder), it assumes you want the mail message set, which excludes Post-To.

Preferences for visible headers is screwy too, because we only remember one set of header preferences (as opposed to a set for mail messages and another set for newsgroup posts).  Hope to get this straightened out for the next release.

Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2009-05-20 15:59:08 UTC

I have a patch to finally fix this for Fedora 12.  Moving this to an equivalent upstream bug.  See [1] for further updates.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274117