269638 - When importing MS OE setting with multiple accounts, all accounts are set to use the default SMTP server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 470725

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Jungshik Shin]

When importing MS OE settings with multiple POP3/IMAP4 accounts that use
*different* SMTP servers, the mapping between POP3/IMAP4 accounts and SMTP
servers is lost although SMTP servers themselves are properly imported and added
to the SMTP server list. 

This can be quite confusing to MS OE users  who are used to a notion that
POP3/IMAP4 accounts and SMTP servers go in pairs. To ease the transition from MS
OE to Mozilla-mail/TB,we need to preserve the mapping.

In addition, with the growing popularity  of SPF and the increasing number of
SMTP servers (that don't do any relaying at all even after SMTP authentication),
Mozilla's model of one SMTP server for multiple accounts/identities doesn't hold
as well as before.  

Related bugs are bug 170520 and bug 202468

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Bug 264256 is Mozilla to Thunderbird migration case.

Comment 2

[Phil Lacy]

This should be dup and fixed in Bug 470725. Please review and if not. Advise conditions and I will revise that patch to take care of it.