Bug 490980 - cannot compose new newsgroup message
Summary: cannot compose new newsgroup message
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-18 18:48 UTC by David Woodhouse
Modified: 2009-05-20 15:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-05-20 15:59:08 UTC
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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


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