282393 - Multiple E-mail addresses from one account (for catch-all e-mail accounts)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Mike Robinson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54u1  [en]
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0

I have a catch-all e-mail account, which means that e-mail that is sent to 
anything @mydomain.com will arrive to that account. In other e-mail clients, I 
like to send e-mails from different addresses, so I set up an account with the 
same server, login and password, but only change the e-mail address that it is 
coming from. When I try to do this with TB, I get an error saying "A mail 
account with the same user name and server already exists". It would be better, 
in my opinion, if you changed this to being just a warning where you can click 
"Continue anyway" or "Go back".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Described above

Actual Results:  
I wasn't able to add my additional e-mail account

Expected Results:  
I should have been able to add my additional e-mail account using the same 
username, password and server. The error should be changed to a warning only.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Use "Identities" for this. 

Thunderbird : FAQs : Multiple Identities
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Multiple_Identities