221313 - I cannot create multiple news accounts to the same server but to different ports.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55540

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Phillip Blanton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

I have a news server with a number of private newsgroups on different ports. I
need to create a number of different accounts, all to the same server but to
different ports.  Thunderbird won't allow me to create more than one account to
the same server.  This is arbitrarily bad behavior.  There are many reaons to
allow a user to create as many accounts to the same news server as he needs. 
Why would you arbitrarily decide that I shouldn't be able to do this?  This is
the only reason I still need to keep Outlook Express around.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a new newsgroup account to a multiport news server.  Call it
"Newsgroup 1 on <server.com>". 
2.Create a second account to point to a group on another port on the same
server.  Call it "Newsgroup 2 on <server.com>".
3. You can't get this far.  Step 2 fails.

Actual Results:  
I was not able to create the second account.

Expected Results:  
I should be able to create as many accounts as I want, which all point to
different ports on the same server.  In fact, I should be able to create as many
accounts as I want that all point to the same port on the same server.  I may
want to masquerade under a different alias from time to time.  Thunderbird
should *NOT* prevent this.

Nope. I think I covered it.

Comment 1

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55540 ***