you can only post to newsgroups on news.mozilla.org, and of course, news.mozilla.org needs to be one of your news hosts. I need to find out how 4.x determined which newshost to post to. was it the one selected? was it the default news server?

marking m7 and accepting

Good release note candidate for M6. I'll notify verah when there is a bug report for M6 release note items.

<I've notified verah in her m6 release note bug report to add this.>

fixed. To post to other news hosts, you need to set the default nntp server pref: "network.hosts.nntp_server" Currently, the default value of this pref is "news.mozilla.org". (see bug #8053) So to post to news://news/mcom.test, you need to add this to your prefs: user_pref("network.hosts.nntp_server", "news"); I still need to work with rhp so that if you address a message to: news://host/group news://group host/group group it will work. right now, only "group" works, because the mime code thinks the others are errors.

<Note: I'll update verah when M7 release notes are there to remove this bug from the notes>

Updated release notes for M7 (bug 7909) to remove this reference from the Additional Mail Functionality section where this bug is listed.

Verified on 6_14 Linux. Onwards to Mac/Win....

Mac verification contingent on fix to 8145.

Verified. Did Mac, Win testing on 6_16 build.