54441 - Large Fonts: Outbound server field not visible in Account Wizard.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[Gagan]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000927
Netscape6/6.0b3
BuildID:    2000092711

My mail server is nsmail-2 and that does not seem to be a valid host name for
the wizard. dredd (as an alias) works fine. So my suspicion is the - as not
being a valid character. Per the hostname spec, it is a valid character and we
should allow using it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Set up a new account, and try any host as a server name with a dash in it. 				

Actual Results:  Dialog box "Please enter a valid hostname"					

Expected Results:  next screen.

Comment 1

[Gagan]

Hmmm... Seems like it worked the second time. Not sure what was going wrong.
Maybe the entry in outgoing was wrong. I will try and see if I hit it again.

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

hrm. The test is whether or not the string is blank - there is no special 
character validation.... Which makes me think something goofy is going on with 
the <textfield> or something.

Comment 3

[Gagan]

I think I know what was going on. The first time I tried this my prefs window
(account wizard window) was small enough to not show the Outbound server field
(and so that was blank) After I resized and filled it in everything went ok. So
maybe there should still be bug about the account wizard to appear in the right
size. Or maybe there already is a bug for that. I'd let you decide that. But I
am updating the correct summary for this bug.

Comment 4

[Alec Flett]

ARGH. 10 to one you're using large fonts?
I wish NT would just abolish that.
Let's revisit this after the wizard polish that will come in RTM

Comment 5

[Gagan]

nail=>head. rtm.

Comment 6

[selmer (gone)]

I bet people using large fonts are used to working around stuff like this :-)
Workaround is to use regular font or resize (sounds like.)
rtm-

Comment 7

[Alec Flett]

massive reassign of account manager bugs -> sspitzer
please feel free to put me back on the CC if you have any questions/comments

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign of account manager bugs to racham.

Comment 9

[Mark Anderson]

I think there's a good chance that I could fix this.  Is the Account Wizard's 
size of 500 width and 400 height set in stone?  If not, I found that settings of 
 width=43em and height=35em are adequate to appear almost the same on my 
1024x768 Large Fonts setup but fit the entire Outbound server field.  However, 
I've no method of testing on other setups, so I thought I'd inquire.  (Also, the 
absolute width of 200px for the text block when there's already an Outgoing Mail 
Server seems to be unnecessary.)

Comment 10

[Mark Anderson]

Attachment: Patch to size dialog relatively

Comment 11

[Mark Anderson]

Attachment: Complete patch (ignore the first one)

Comment 12

[Mark Anderson]

Ok, that newest patch should do what is required to fix this bug, but I need it 
to be tested on setups other than 1024x768 with Large Fonts.

Comment 13

[Dimitrios]

*** Bug 116586 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[jhp (no longer active)]

This is also a problem on OS/2.  It uses larger fonts by default than windows,
and the outgoing server field is cut off.  Using the above patch fixes the
issue.  However, I find that the values of "width: 43em; height: 35em;" leave
too much empty space in the dialog.  It looked much better on OS/2 with values
of "width: 35em; height: 30em;".

Comment 15

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 16

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

*** Bug 120240 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Stefan Borggraefe]

This was FIXED by the checkin for bug 114077.

The size of the wizard is now specified im em, so it should have the correct
size regardless what font size is used.