Re: Exception when listing all NNTP folders

Chris Burdess <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:03:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.classpath.extensions.javamail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hash9 wrote:
> When attempting to list all NNTP folders on news.mozilla.org I get the
> following Exception.
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException:
> String index out of range: -1
>         at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1768)
>         at gnu.inet.nntp.GroupIterator.nextGroup(GroupIterator.java:86)
>         at gnu.mail.providers.nntp.NNTPRootFolder.list(
> 		NNTPRootFolder.java:97)
>         at javax.mail.Folder.list(Folder.java:290)
> Java Result: 1
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

OK, I see the problem. It will be fixed in the next release.

For the time being please set the session property mail.nntp.listall to 
"true", this will avoid the problem.
-- 
Chris Burdess