168671 - "Remove Account" doesn't do a complete job

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 173393

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Roger Pariseau]

"Remove Account" doesn't clear the related entries in prefs.js. Educated guesses
and a "white knuckle" save while editing prefs.js corrected the situation but
not the problem. The problem is that older account entries get added -- not
replaced -- with the same account name and identical data, where applicable,
retained. That is, "account" remains and "account-1" is added to the prefs.js
file but with "account" still as its username. Mozilla will not permit duplicate
email account names in added accounts. (Does this make any sense?) Should one
move one's ISP but retain the same account name, then it's impossible to remove
ISP#1's data and use the same account name for ISP#2 without manually editing
prefs.js.  Have not observed this problem with other e-mail programs.

Comment 1

[Jean-Pierre Melkonian]

see bug 128744. Is the mail folder deleted on the disk ?

Comment 2

[Ere Maijala (slow)]

This also causes assertions in debug builds (Couldn't lazily create the server)
when starting mailnews.

Comment 3

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173393 ***

Comment 4

[Vedran Miletic]

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