214035 - The message for "Default SMTP will be used" needs change

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Voyager]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030726 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1a (20030723)

When a new Email account is created in Thunderbird (after the first one, when
one has a default SMTP server), the message shown for SMTP is directly copied
from Mozilla Mail.  That is, when one goes File>New>Account, and enters his name
and email address, the next screen where one is to enter servers, comes up.  One
chooses a POP or IMAP server and types in the address.  Underneath, the message
reads, 

"Your existing outgoing server (SMTP) xxx.smtp.yyy will be used. You can modify
outgoing server by choosing MAIL & NEWSGROUP ACCOUNT SETTINGS from the EDIT menu."

However, there is no Mail & Newsgroup settings under Edit menu in Thunderbird. 
It's ACCOUNT SETTINGS from the TOOLS menu.  This is potentially confusing for a
new user who has never used Mozilla or Netscape.  This text should be changed
before the final 0.1 release.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
In Thunderbird.
1. Go to File>New>Account (make sure you have at least one account with SMTP
already set).
2. Fill out a name and an email address in the first screen and click Next.
3. Read the text about SMTP on the second screen.

Actual Results:  
It reads, ""Your existing outgoing server (SMTP) xxx.smtp.yyy will be used. You
can modify outgoing server by choosing MAIL & NEWSGROUP ACCOUNT SETTINGS from
the EDIT menu." [emphasis mine]

Expected Results:  
It should read, "Your existing outgoing server (SMTP) xxx.smtp.yyy will be used.
You can modify outgoing server by choosing ACCOUNT SETTINGS from the OPTIONS menu."

Please Note: The component part was just guessed, since I didn't know what this
bug would fall under.

Comment 1

[Peter Bartecki]

The old way of assigning SMTP servers should definately change as there are  

Comment 2

[Stephen Walker]

*** Bug 243702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Stephen Walker]

*** Bug 255813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

It sure got me (first-time Thunderbird user) confused. Nominating to block 1.0.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

would be nice to have but not a blocker

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

the trunk fix will have to wait till we finish forking all of the locale files
on the trunk. Leaving open for that

Comment 8

[Stephen Walker]

*** Bug 268350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

minor nit for Linux: Account Settings is now under the Edit menu, not Tools, so
the text there is still incorrect.

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

fixed on the trunk