202231 - Deleting one account from more than ten deletes other accounts, too

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 273311

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Guido Schnepp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I've ten accounts here (9 e-mail-adresses plus local folder, organized in
prefs.js with names mail.server.server1 to mail.server.server10. These entries
are sorted alphabetical (server1, server10, server2, etc.). When I decided to
delete the e-mail-address behind server1, MailNews deleted all prefs.js-entries
BEGINNING with "server1" at the same time, also server10 (my local folders). My
local-folder-folder was not deleted, just the reference.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I would reproduce it by creating more then ten accounts
2. Delete the first account via preferences window

Actual Results:  
Haven't tried again.

Expected Results:  
Don't delete other entries in the prefs.js.

Comment 1

[Peter Kirk]

Attachment: extract from prefs.js which exhibits this bug

I have also experienced this bug, with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925, and found it reproducible with my setup (after
restoring from backup). When attempting to delete an account from the Mail and
Newsgroup Account Settings menu item, I get a message "Account cannot be
deleted". I find that some details for that account have been deleted, but also
some details have been lost of other accounts which I didn't want to delete.

*** This is indeed CRITICAL because settings are lost which should not be
deleted ***

I was able to work around this by editing prefs.js by hand, deleting all
references to unwanted accounts and the corresponding servers and ids.

Attached: the mail section of my prefs.js as backed up before trying to delete

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273311 ***