Re: Exception when listing all NNTP folders

Chris Burdess <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:49:23 +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.

It looks like news.mozilla.org is returning an invalid response to the 
GROUP command. I'll add some more useful exception information, but for 
the time being perhaps you could try using tcpflow or something to see 
what it's actually returning.
-- 
Chris Burdess