251954 - can't have multiple accounts with same server; doing so forces you to resubscribe over and over

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176326

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Michael McDougall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

I created a 2nd newsgroup account using the same server but a different account
name. The account wizard let me go through all the steps without complaining,
but when I finished the wizard my account did not appear. Restarting Mozilla
made no difference. However, when I select a newsgroup alt.fan.foo a dialog box
says "Would you like to subscribe to alt.fan.foo -- OK, Cancel". This dialog box
appears every time I select the newsgroup -- even when I have clicked OK on the
dialog box.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See above
Actual Results:  
The account wizard fails silently. My original account is corrupted so that I
have to confirm my subscription every time I select a newsgroup

Expected Results:  
Ideally I should be able to create 2 news accounts with different account names
but with the same server. 

Barring that, the account wizard should inform the user that only 1 account per
news server is allowed. And my first account with the server should not be
corrupted.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176326 ***

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 279169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***