150035 - Label left-hand pane of Account Settings dialog as "Categories"

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Pete Lindsley]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en]C-CCK-MCD {RSC}  (Windows NT 5.0; U)
BuildID:    2002052918

My outgoing IMAP mail server just changed and I can't figure out how to update 
the name. Mozilla Help says to start from mail window, choose edit, then Mail & 
Newsgroups Account Settings. Then "Select the Outgoing Server (SMTP) category". 
THIS IS THE ERROR. The instructions are not clear enough for me to find the 
Outgoing Server field. So I can't even mail this from the Mac (without zapping 
my old mail installation and starting from scratch) and I have to mail this from 
a PeeCee :-(

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. follow instructions on changing outgoing mail IMAP server name
2. can't find the field where I can change the name
3.

Actual Results:  re-read instructions. same as reported above (i.e. no way found 
to change outgoing server)

Expected Results:  Either modify help file to more easily point the way, or 
reveal an "outgoing mail server edit button"

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Pete, "Outoing Server (SMTP)" is one of the categories in the left-hand pane of the Account 
Settings dialog. Look for it there. Since outgoing servers aren't the same thing as your incoming 
IMAP or POP accounts, it's listed separately.

I suppose this bug could be an RFE to label the left-hand pane as "Categories," since it's not 
labelled with any header now. That way, if the user is instructed to look for a "category," there 
will be some in-dialog indication where it can be found. I'll change this bug and confirm it as 
such.

Changing Product to MailNews.

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Adding jglick to the Cc: list. Another bug where users are having problems
finding how to associate the SMTP Server with the account. 

Comment 3

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420