285452 - Fails to update account settings when mail server name changed

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[John Olsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

At work we have switched IMAP mail servers (name of mail servers) and thus I
needed to update my mail account settings to reflect the changes. I just
replaced the "Server Name" setting, got a warning message and then everything
seemed to work as it should. Until I tried to send a mail. When Thunderbird
comes to the phase where it copies the sent mail to the Sent folder on the mail
server it just hangs. I can press "Cancel" and close the mail edit window
(confirming that the mail was not sent properly). This happended *every* time.

Today it struck me that it might be interesting to verify that the account
settings in Thunderbirds prefs.js file were correct. They were not. Just the
mail server name had been changed, but the paths to the Sent, Draft and Template
folders still had the old mail server name in them!

Once I replaced the old mail server name by hand in the prefs.js file (for all
relevant configuration options) to the new mail server name everything worked as
a charm again. :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an IMAP mail account on mail server
2. Rename the mail server (e.g. from foo.bar.com to gazonk.bar.com)
3. Update account settings to reflect the name change

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird fails to copy sent mail to Sent folder on mail server.

Expected Results:  
All relevant configuration settings should have been updated automatically to
reflect the change of mail server name.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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