From 1557fa38886439a32368082b980047d59f3d63d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "sspitzer%netscape.com" <sspitzer%netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 04:17:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix for #96164. don't make a connection to the news server
 when updating unread counts if there are no groups.  r/sr=bienvenu

---
 mailnews/news/src/nsNntpIncomingServer.cpp | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mailnews/news/src/nsNntpIncomingServer.cpp b/mailnews/news/src/nsNntpIncomingServer.cpp
index 8bf5494b20b8..b42bc3eaf358 100644
--- a/mailnews/news/src/nsNntpIncomingServer.cpp
+++ b/mailnews/news/src/nsNntpIncomingServer.cpp
@@ -577,6 +577,15 @@ nsNntpIncomingServer::PerformExpand(nsIMsgWindow *aMsgWindow)
 {
   nsresult rv;
 
+  // a user might have a new server without any groups.
+  // if so, bail out.  no need to establish a connection to the server
+  PRInt32 numGroups = 0;
+  rv = GetNumGroupsNeedingCounts(&numGroups);
+  NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv,rv);
+
+  if (!numGroups)
+    return NS_OK;
+
   nsCOMPtr<nsINntpService> nntpService = do_GetService(NS_NNTPSERVICE_CONTRACTID, &rv);
   NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv,rv);