(In reply to Hartmut Figge from comment #83) > I have just seen something related. The names of the last 6 of my news > accounts are changed by inserting multiple times the string 'hafi'. > > (...)
If you rewrite the strings, the issue becomes clearer: hafi news hafi 1.open-news- hafi network.org hafi hafi read hafi .news.telefo hafi nica.de hafi hafi news hafi .alice-dsl.d hafi e hafi hafi free hafi news.netfron hafi t.net hafi hafi news hafi .tota-refugi hafi um.dehafi hafi news hafi .online.de hafi So in between "hafi"s there are parts of certain lengths (4, up to 12, rest) of the old account name, and "hafi" is both at the beginning and end of all strings. As I already noted on the newsgroups (somewhere...), I've seen this bug years ago but was never able to reproduce it. Thanks to your list of broken strings (heh) I was able to track it down this time: I'm 99% sure nsMsgIncomingServer::OnUserOrHostNameChanged is the culprit. As the name implies, a username or password change triggers a renaming of the account name (prettyName internally): "replace all occurrences of old name in the acct name with the new one". It seems the code is not always doing the right thing (maybe if oldName or newName are empty?). Do you remember what exactly you did and what you entered? In any case I'm pretty sure the issue you see is not this bug, so please file a new one (Product MailNews Core), CC me and post the bug number here for reference (I'm not a back-end guy so we'll need help there). Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/914991 Title: Thunderbird sometimes marks whole newsgroups as read Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Fix Released Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I was tracking the upstream bug report #695309 for this issue, which has affected Thunderbird 8.0, the version in Oneiric. The problem has just been patched upstream in trunk and will make it into Thunderbird 12 when that releases (in May, presumably too late for Precise). I filed this bug report to make sure that the change gets noticed and backported to Oneiric post-haste, as it's a pretty major usability failing and there was no bug on LP that was tracking this upstream bug that I could find. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/914991/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
