156091 - duplicate account warning when it might make sense

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Zeiss]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

As soon as i enter the same host and username in a new account which
are already used in another account mozilla makes a popup with a warning
that this account already exists and that it cannot be used any more.

however, it does make sense ! :

i'm using multiple accounts using mozilla via one imap account. 
normally one account would certainly be enough, but i still want
to send with different "From: " fields depending on the account.
To recognize the correct host to forward my mailer is configured
to use a smartrouting feature. so if the mailer sees a certain
address in the from field he exactly knows where to send the mail.
that way i have worked around the limit of mozilla that there is no
account based, but global smtp saved.

whatever, i still need to add one account for each email address
i use since i need to select the from address when composing
the mail. but normally mozilla wouldn't let me. so far i have
worked around the problem by using different dns different each
time for the same server, but this solution is really dirty and
unwanted.

it would be enough if that duplicate check wouldn't
just check if host and username are the same, but whether
host,username *and* email-address are the same. this would
solve the problem (i guess?).





Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create new account
2. enter the same content in host and username fields


Actual Results:  warning. new account cannot be created.

Expected Results:  mozilla should better check hostname,username and
emailaddress instead
of hostname and username only.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

With Multiple Identities

  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/identities.html

(also available in the Mozilla Suite) you don't need this kind of hack anymore.

Marking WONTFIX based on this.

Please reopen if you still think a fix for this is needed.