Bug 491252

Summary:	The function of "Check for new articles every "number" minutes for newsgroup" does not work.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Yewei Shao <mshao>
Component:	thunderbird	Assignee:	Jan Horak <jhorak>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version:	5.3
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Description Yewei Shao 2009-03-20 03:08:52 UTC

Description of problem:
The function of "Check for new articles every "number" minutes for newsgroup" does not work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-1.5.0.12-19.el4
X86_64, ia64

How reproducible:everytime


Steps to Reproduce:
1.make sure you have a newsgroup account available in thunderbird.
2.Go to Edit->Account Settings, choose your newsgroup account, click "Server Settings"
3. check option "Check for new articles every "number" minutes", set number to 5,click OK.
  
Actual results:
The newsgroup account will not automatically getting news messages every 5 minutes. But if you click the newsgroup and click "Get Mail", you will get the news messages.

Expected results:
The newsgroup account will automatically getting news messages every 5 minutes.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-04-02 10:00:13 UTC

Could you reproduce it with RHEL5, please? I don't think we will fix this for RHEL4.

Comment 2 Yewei Shao 2009-04-03 04:39:26 UTC

It can be reproduced in RHEL5.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2009-04-08 14:58:40 UTC

yup, even after half an hour (with 1 minute set as the time limit) anything happened.

And actually, even though newsgroups GET the messages when you click on Get New Messages, folders are not made bold and no number of new messages is shown, until one clicks on the particular folder.

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2009-04-08 15:05:31 UTC

We found this bug in the upstream database (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303526) and believe that it is more appropriate to let it be resolved upstream.

Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.

Thank you for the bug report.

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2009-04-08 15:06:10 UTC

And, no, restart of TB (as suggested in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24594) didn't help.

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2009-04-08 15:10:30 UTC

Second problem described in comment 4 is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260545

Comment 7 Matěj Cepl 2009-04-08 15:32:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> And, no, restart of TB (as suggested in
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24594) didn't help.  

Taking back ... it did help and new messages are now arriving. Restart of TB is all what's needed. So this is duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24594