217994 - Duplicate Account Check Too Strict

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41929

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030830 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030830 Firebird/0.6.1+

The account check for duplicates is too strict. Currently it seems to search on
Username and Server and ignore port. However it is feasable to have different
pop severs running on different ports on the same server.

For example: 

I run a pop3proxying script to check incoming mail with SpamAssassin. It listens
on ports 110,111,112 and 114, forwarding requests to them to the actual pop3
server (all running on 110 on remote machines). I am unable to add two accounts
with the same username and same server running on different ports.

It tells me that they already exist.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:


Actual Results:  
An error saying the account already exists

Expected Results:  
Added the account as it was different to an already existing one.

Comment 1

[Bruce Davidson]

This is basically bug 159404, which was resolved as a duplicate of bug 41929.
Resolving this as a dupe of bug 41929 too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41929 ***