From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040901 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: Evolution is not able to browse the list of newsgroups on my campus' newsserver (newsstand.cit.cornell.edu). It shows no newsgroups when I try to subscribe to folders. Thunderbird has the same problem. This is behind a NAT router off campus. Notice, however, that a Windows XP computer with the Gravity news reader on the same network does not have this problem. I suspect this is some kind of authentication issue. The Gravity reader allows me to enter a username and cleartext password to authenticate, and only then the server will work. Evolution allows me to enter a username and select the password authentication method, but never prompts for a password before attempting to show the list of newsgroups. I used to get news via Thunderbird when on campus and not behind NAT. I think I didn't have to authenticate though (except for posts). Now I have to authenticate because it won't work otherwise, and I think this might be breaking it. Any clues or hints as to how I can help fix the problem? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-1.5.94.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See Summary Additional info:
Can you reproduce this bug with evolution-2.0.0? If so, can you open a terminal, export CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 and restart evolution, and see what diagnostics are output.
Thread 6550bb0 > CamelFolder:get_message('Inbox', '2262') = class: CamelMimeMessage mime-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 content class: CamelDataWrapper content mime-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 < 6550bb0 > NNTP_STREAM_LINE(96): '200 newsstand.cit.cornell.edu InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.2 13-Dec-1999 ready (posting ok).' NNTP_COMMAND: 'mode reader' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(96): '200 newsstand.cit.cornell.edu InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.2 13-Dec-1999 ready (posting ok).' NNTP_COMMAND: 'date' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(18): '111 20040923151207' NNTP_COMMAND: 'list overview.fmt' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(41): '215 Order of fields in overview database.' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(8): 'Subject:' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(5): 'From:' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(5): 'Date:' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(11): 'Message-ID:' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(11): 'References:' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(6): 'Bytes:' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(6): 'Lines:' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(9): 'Xref:full' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(END) g_f_i: fast 0 subscr 4 recursive 2 online 1 top "" Thread 37bdbb0 > Get folder info(0x8d85210:nntp://ivg2@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu/, '<null>') = < 37bdbb0 > g_f_i: fast 1 subscr 0 recursive 0 online 1 top "" NNTP_COMMAND: 'date' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(18): '111 20040923151224' NNTP_COMMAND: 'list' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(46): '215 Newsgroups in form "group high low flags".' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(END) Thread 37bdbb0 > Get folder info(0x8d85210:nntp://ivg2@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu/, '') = < 37bdbb0 > g_f_i: fast 1 subscr 0 recursive 0 online 1 top "" NNTP_COMMAND: 'date' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(18): '111 20040923151225' NNTP_COMMAND: 'newgroups 040923 151224' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(26): '231 New newsgroups follow.' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(END) Thread 5b4fbb0 > Get folder info(0x8d85210:nntp://ivg2@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu/, '') = < 5b4fbb0 > g_f_i: fast 1 subscr 0 recursive 0 online 1 top "" NNTP_COMMAND: 'date' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(18): '111 20040923151237' NNTP_COMMAND: 'newgroups 040923 151225' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(26): '231 New newsgroups follow.' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(END) Thread 37bdbb0 > Get folder info(0x8d85210:nntp://ivg2@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu/, '') = < 37bdbb0 > g_f_i: fast 1 subscr 0 recursive 0 online 1 top "" NNTP_COMMAND: 'date' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(18): '111 20040923151436' NNTP_COMMAND: 'newgroups 040923 151237' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(26): '231 New newsgroups follow.' NNTP_STREAM_LINE(END) Thread 5b4fbb0 > Get folder info(0x8d85210:nntp://ivg2@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu/, '') = < 5b4fbb0 > Except I don't see 231 newsgroups. I see 0.0 newsgroups displayed when I select Tools->Subscribe Folders, and choose the server in question.
I got thunderbird to work. I had to tell it to "Always request authentication when connecting to server". Evolution is still not working.
This is still not working at all 30 days later. I tried with my friend's nntp server, and evolution complains: Error retrieving newsgroups: 281 Ok where thunderbird works perfectly. With the server that I usually use there's no error - it just doesn't show any newsgroups - see above. evolution-2.0.2-1
60 days later, no change. Should I bother developers upstream? evolution-2.0.2-4
Fixed.