116949 - Multiple POP doesn't work if server is the same

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41929

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Tony Lawrence]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122108

I happen to have two pop accounts on the same server- different names but same
pop server. When I try to create the second account it fails complaining that I
already have it defined.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.need two accounts on same server
2.
3.

Actual Results:  n/a

Expected Results:  n/a

Minor, but no workaround.

Comment 1

[Navin Gupta]

sheela, can you also confirm?

Comment 2

[Sheela Ravindran]

Build: 2001-12-26-06 linux RH 6.2

I created two pop accounts with the same server but different accounts. I did 
not see any problem.  worksforme.

To the person who confirmed this bug and the reporter:
If you are creating a 2nd account from accounts and settings, we only ask for 
the incoming server. We do not ask for the outgoing server again.  Attach the 
screen shot with the error message and also exact steps to be able to see this 
problem.

Can you provide the exact steps to able to see this problem?

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

Reporter comments via email:  

OK.  I created an account at aplawrence.com for the user name "tony". That 
works.

I then choose "Create New Account", again giving it aplawrence.com but this time 
user "pcunix".

Attached message box which says that an account with the same server and user 
name already exists- and it does not.

However- if I tell it to create "fred" (which I don't need)- that works.. no 
clue what causes this.. if you can't duplicate it maybe whatever is confused 
will turn up again some other way.. I can get around it for now

Comment 4

[Sheela Ravindran]

Can you attach the screen shot in the bug.  And any furter comments just 
update the bug so that the engineer also knows what is going on.  Thanks.  

Comment 5

[Tony Lawrence]

Attachment: jpg dump of http://pcunix.com/Reviews/mozilla.html

Sorry I can't seem to make this a more simple case.
Interestingly, if I transfer  http://pcunix.com/Reviews/mozilla.html to my
system and use Open->File, it never screws up,
Over the internet it does, though a reload or two will fix it.

Comment 6

[Tony Lawrence]

Attachment: Error from adding pop account

Other atachment 62826 had nothing to do with this- sorry.

Comment 7

[Sheela Ravindran]

Account set up problem -> changing qa contact and reassign.  

Comment 8

[Ninoschka Baca]

Unfortunately I cannot duplicate the problem. In the Account Wizard after
selecting the first radio button to create an "ISP or other email" account there
are a number of dialogs. Which one reports the error?

1. Identity dialog
- Your Name
- Email Adress
2. Server dialog
- Incoming Server
- Outgoing Server
3. User Name
4. Account Name
5. Summary dialog (Finish button)

Comment 9

[Tony Lawrence]

It's the final "Finish" that it errors.

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

Here's a wild guess.  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108387 is
about how renaming a POP account with a user name that is bigger than the
previous name doesn't work.  Perhaps the same check is happening here.  "pcunix"
is longer than "tony" so it fails but "fred" is the same so it works.  

Comment 11

[Cavin Song]

I couldn't reproduce the problem using 01/17/2002 build and I even used the
exact same names provided by reporter.

Comment 12

[wacheo]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41929 ***

Comment 13

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.