Version: 0.7.2 (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs OS: Linux When you want to "supersedes" the first article of a thread, Knode includes an empty References: field. So the server rejects the article : "441 437 No colon-space in "References" header" Article sample : Message-Id: <1343439.05auqCzuUL@plam.org> Supersedes: <Xns3AEBFC620ED81plam@news.free.fr> From: Patrick =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Lamaizi=E8re?= <plamaiziere@alussinan.org> Subject: aaa Newsgroups: proxad.test Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 23:27:09 +0200 References: Lines: 3 Organization: non User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

I confirm this on 0.7.1 too. While this bug doesn't create any problems on most servers, it seems that Microsoft news server does not like headers with no content. So this server simply rejects the post with the error message: «The 'References:' field requires one or more values»

I asked my newsmaster, the server is INN. «The 'References:' field requires one or more values» Yes, RFC 1036 : 2.2.5. References This field lists the Message-ID's of any messages prompting the submission of this message. It is required for all follow-up messages, and forbidden when a new subject is raised.

Replaced plamaiziere@free.fr with null@kde.org due to bounces by reporter

SVN commit 414978 by vkrause: Don't create empty reference headers on supersede. CCBUG: 58290 M +2 -1 trunk/KDE/kdepim/knode/knarticlefactory.cpp --- trunk/KDE/kdepim/knode/knarticlefactory.cpp #414977:414978 @@ -486,7 +486,8 @@ art->followUpTo()->from7BitString(a->followUpTo()->as7BitString(false)); //References - art->references()->from7BitString(a->references()->as7BitString(false)); + if ( !a->references()->isEmpty() ) + art->references()->from7BitString( a->references()->as7BitString(false) ); //Supersedes art->supersedes()->from7BitString(a->messageID()->as7BitString(false));

SVN commit 414982 by vkrause: Backport from trunk: Don't create empty reference headers on supersede. BUG: 58290 M +2 -1 branches/KDE/3.4/kdepim/knode/knarticlefactory.cpp --- branches/KDE/3.4/kdepim/knode/knarticlefactory.cpp #414981:414982 @@ -486,7 +486,8 @@ art->followUpTo()->from7BitString(a->followUpTo()->as7BitString(false)); //References - art->references()->from7BitString(a->references()->as7BitString(false)); + if ( !a->references()->isEmpty() ) + art->references()->from7BitString( a->references()->as7BitString(false) ); //Supersedes art->supersedes()->from7BitString(a->messageID()->as7BitString(false));