254194 - Account Manager confuses accounts with different ports

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41929

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Hadmut Danisch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040715 Debian/1.7.1-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040715 Debian/1.7.1-1

Hi,
I have different IMAP accounts, and I do access each of them either 
directly at 127.0.0.1:143 or through SSL/SSH tunnels (127.0.0.1:otherport).
The username is always the same (my first name).

Unfortunately mozilla can't handle these different accounts, because it
identifies the account only by IP and username. When I want to enter a second
account, it complains that there is already such an account. No chance to enter
a different port (this might be related to bug 78357). Furthermore, the 
URLs in the preferences file describes Draft etc. folders with a URL without the
port number, so even if it was possible to create another account, the different
mailboxes would be confused.

I therefore suggest to have a port selector in the account wizard and to 
identify accounts and folders by IP, username *and* port number.

regards
Hadmut


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

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