170306 - Unable to setup 2 news-accounts for the same proxy-server

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 104963

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[CR]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

I am using a proxy to read my newsgroups. Each newsgroup is
mapped to a seperate port so I would need the settings (example)

  212.17.75.34:1019  newsgroup 1
  212.17.75.34:1020  newsgroup 2

1. Assigning the second news-account gives me a "An account with that user 
name and server name already exists. Please enter a different user name 
and/or server name.".
I think it should only be checked for servername/Port number to be identical?

2. Also I'm not able to connect to my newsserver going over the proxy 
(212.17.75.34). I always get a "Could not connect to server 212.17.75.34; the
connection was refused" message which cannot be true as a 
"telnet 212.17.75.34 1019" on the shell works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the news-preferences
2. set up account 1 using servername aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and port xxxx
3. set up account 2 using servername aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and port yyyy
4. click the ok button 

Actual Results:  
"An account with that user name and server name already exists. Please enter a
different user name and/or server name." message

Expected Results:  
create the account with the given settings

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104963 ***

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup