247372 - change of default outcoing SMTP server does not take effect for send message thereafter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170089

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[liebich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

When I change the default outcoing SMTP server (mail&news account settings ->
Outcoing server (SMPT) -> advanced ... then "set default" to a different smpt
server in the list of server), if does not take effect to a later "sent now" or
"sent unsent message" - it still contacts the previously selected SMTP server.

Also closing mail&news or exit mozilla and restart does not change it. I used
this procedure regularly and had no problems since Mozilla 1.6 (so it appears to
be a new problem in 1.7 (using RC3 now).

Only way to overcome the problem was to delete the previous SMTP server from the
list, then the new default SMTP server is accepted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. change the outcoing SMTP server (need to have at least two previously defined)
2. send a message (send now or send unsent messages)
3. message bar shows that still the previously SMPT server is contacted
Actual Results:  
mail sent via the "old" default SMTP server

Expected Results:  
mail sent via the "new" default SMTP server

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

Sure the SMTP server in Mail&News Account Settings ->
Server Settings -> Advanced ... is set to "Always use default server" rather
than a particular one?

Comment 2

[liebich]

no it wasn't - a specific smtp server was set - however I did never made this
setting, so it should be (by default), set to "always use default server", when
upgrading to 1.7 ?

Comment 3

[Max Alekseyev]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170089 ***