272754 - bad SMTP server assigned, no choice or place to enter new smtp server

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Waldemar Dworakowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

I work in situations where my SMTP server is different for every 'mailbox' and
even changes dependent on where I am. In netscape it was easy - I could change
both SMTP and POP3 address without any problem. Here it is not possibe.
To explain it better I will describe scenario that I have just a moment ago
tested. I set up one mailbox (profile) and I set up proper POP3 server and got a
choice between 'default' and the same one that I entered. Then I add next
account (profile). Here I enter different POP3 and this part seams to work.
Anyway In SMTP setting I still get 'default' or SMTP set for other mailbox.
Setting either of them gives the same result - mail is sent (in fact mail relay
blocked) via previously set up server.
Even when I try to change the POP3 for first mailbox I still get old SMTP ant
that's bad idea ;<
I think that either SMTP should be freely editable or at least there should
exist a way to change the selection list...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create 2 accounts (profiles)
2. Try to assign other SMTP to second profile
3. enjoy

Actual Results:  
Could not select other SMTP

Expected Results:  
There ought to be free choice of the SMTP server (with a way to collect
user/password etc)

If it is important - it have been migrated from Netscape 4.79 to thunderbird 0.7
(AFAIR) then upgraded two times - now in 0.9
That problem is somehow security related as sometimes data sent ought not to be
sent using 'unsecure' SMTP servers and because of the setting it will flow via
first profile configured SMTP

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is not a security-sensitive bug. THis is also not a bug. You can set
additional SMTP servers from the Account Settings, Outgoing Server (SMTP) panel.

Comment 2

[perl]

It's imposible to use 2 this same SMTP server:
1. I use 2 accounts (for example 'pepe' and 'leo') on this same server (we can
take 'mail.w7.pl'), I use name and pass for server, one user (for example
'pepe'). This one account is the default.
2. When I want to sent mail form 'leo' account, there is an error message (that
the 'leo' name and pass not belong to 'pepe' account).
3. Thunderbird takes the first smtp server from the list of smtp servers and
doesn't metter which one is the default.

I can only sent mail from one account, if this two account use the different
smtp servers, it wouldn't be any problem.

I thik this is a bug?