136933 - can't create two mail accounts with same incoming server and username

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41929

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Brunthaler]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

Want to create a second mail account with the same incoming server and username
but a different identify (my name). This is because a i got mail adresses with
my real name and my nick name (alias) on the same server. But if i want to do so
i get the dialog: 
"A mail or newsgroup account with the same user name and server name already
exists. Click Back and enter a different server name, or click Cancel."

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create two mail accounts with same incoming server and username


Actual Results:  Dialog "A mail or newsgroup account with the same user name and
server name already exists. Click Back and enter a different server name, or
click Cancel."

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

*** Bug 149804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[joeja]

I'm not sure this is the same issue.  Bug 136933 is about 2 email accounts with
different USERNAMES but the same popserver.  

Bug 149804 is about 2 accounts with the SAME username and same popserver.  

They may be related.  

Is there a workaround?

Comment 3

[joeja]

Just tested this.  The issue arrises if BOTH popservers ARE the same.  However
if they are different then you can have two usres with the same name.

Comment 4

[Craig Ringer]

Confirmed under linux moz-1.0 with IMAP accounts.
I use two different accounts on different ports (one on the server, one via a
high port forwarded using ssh to the mail server behind the firewall at work)
and Mozilla will not allow creation of both. I've had to trick it into letting
me by aliasing the mail host to both "firewall.localnet" and "mail.localnet" in
BIND and assigning an account to each. (could be done with /etc/hosts too).

I'd rate this one "Important" m'self, as current behavior is clearly quite
broken. I'd suggest combining a fix for this with adding the option to define a
port at mail account creation and checking for same username + host + port
rather than just username + host.

Comment 5

[wacheo]

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

Comment 6

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.

Comment 7

[:aceman]

You can now have several identities in one account without the need to create more accounts.