158035 - Duplicated identities in composer's "from" drop-menu

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 15621

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Michael Toomim]

With release 1.1a:

I have multiple mail/news accounts.  Each one apparently supplies a different
identity.  Thus, when I click "compose" and want to select an identity in the
"from:" drop-menu, I get multiple identities to select from.

The problem is that while I only really have two *distinct* identities, the menu
lets me select from all identities in all accounts.

This just makes the menu crowded.  Since there isn't any functional difference
between two identical identities in different accounts, Mozilla should omit
duplicated identities, and just let me select from choices that are actually
distinct.

In other words, I think it would make more sense to display an identity only if
the (name, email address) tuple of that identity is distinct from all other
displayed identities.

Comment 1

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15621 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup