GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 348667
Posting server in posting profile
Last modified: 2007-06-02 08:58:56 UTC
Using the wrong server to post a message can be embarrassing or even dangerous. Consider a post to the net-abuse groups from a server including an unmunged nntp-posting-host header, making one's IP a prime target for crackers! Pan therefore needs a method to specify which server should be used for posting. The most direct and intuitive place I can figure for it is posting profiles, now that they are in group preferences. This could eliminate one of the big remaining issues with pre-1.0 as of 0.104, and given the potential user risk exposure, I believe it should be worth serious consideration for the 1.0 milestone.
I /thought/ I'd earmarked this for 1.0 but can't find any previous bugzilla entry for it? Anyway, I agree that this needs to make it into 1.0. Adding it to the posting profile makes sense, except for error-handling: (1) how should Pan handle it when the posting server doesn't have all the groups listed in the new post's Newsgroups: header? (2) how should Pan handle it when the user deletes the news server specified as the posting server in the profile?
Fixed for 0.105. (1) the server will return an error message, and pan pops that up in an error dialog. (2) pop up an error dialog nagging the user to to to Edit|Manage Posting Profiles to set their server. This also works well to migrate existing users who created their profiles before there was a "posting server" option.