225606 - SMTP settings of removed mail account are used after account is removed instead of correct one

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Maxio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031013)

I've added two accounts: [e-mail] and [e-mail]
Then I've removed [e-mail]
When trying to send mail via foo2 account, client was trying to send it via 
[e-mail] ( what caused server error, foo couldn't send it as foo2 ).
In prefs.js I've discovered following line:

user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp1.username", "foo");
after changing it to:
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp1.username", "foo2");


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add two accounts: [e-mail] and [e-mail]
2.Removed [e-mail]
3.Try to send mail via foo2.

Actual Results:  
As desribed

Expected Results:  
use proper settings

Comment 1

[HUI, Arion (Mr)]

In the "Advanced Outgoing Sever (SMTP) Settings" dialogue box, NO matter which
SMTP server is set default, always the first/top SMTP server in the list is
used. Fail as a different ISP is used.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Note that SMTP server is a property of the identity, not the account; and the 
SMTP server pool is maintained separately from the accounts.

Deleting an outgoing mail account doesn't delete the associated SMTP server; and 
when a new account is created, it defaults to using whichever server has been 
selected as default (but *not* "Use Default Server" -- bug 222388).

When an SMTP server is deleted, any identity which uses it is reset to use 
(again) whichever server has been selected as default.

So, deleting an account implies having to separately delete the SMTP server, if 
that's necessary; that's a bit of a drag, but 222388 and/or bug 170520 will make 
that less of a problem.  

With the new UI for SMTP management (Moz 1.8/Seamonkey 1.0/TB 1.5) it is much 
easier to see what's going on, and to figure out how to fix the settings, which 
were inscrutable before.