284522 - 'get all messages' attempts to get messages for a deleted mail account. 2 were created?

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Rick Stockton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050224
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050224

Moz Trunk Nightly from 6 days ago. I created a new Account, which very strangely
showed 2 different versions of the Account in the Mail-News Accounts and Folders
panel (upper left in the 3 panel view). The two "versions" each had a separate
set of folders. This was possibly the root cause of the problem.

The Account was used to send two test messages. If you like, I can
create/destroy more Email Accounts for further analysis.

I deleted the Account. BOTH of the Accounts disappeared deleted from the
Mail-News Accounts panel display. But, when I "get all messages", I see a failed
POP3 login reported for the phantom account (which probably never got a chance
to save the password).

I have two Account folders in /Mail, "mail.canemasters-1.com" and
"mail.canemasters-2.com" (I don't see any need to hide the domain name). It
looks like both messages were sent from "mail.canemasters-2.com".

The Account which remains present in my prefs.js is "mail.canemasters-1.com" and
I think this phantom account only had a chance to be seen when the "real" one,
"mail.canemasters-2.com" was successfully removed. 




Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new, Valid Email Account in Mozilla Nightly 

2. Look in the Accounts/Folders panel: are two Accounts with the name present?

3. Look in your Profile for Duplicate Account folders.

4. Check prefs.js for duplicate mail.server.server(n) definitions (I didn't do
this before deleting the account).

5. Send a couple of messages, see if all the activity is shown on only one of
the "duplicate" Accounts in the Account List panel.

6. Delete the Account-- Both vanish from the accounts panel, but one remains
defined in prefs.js and tries to get mail when you "get all new messages"

Actual Results:  
Results as described.

Expected Results:  
Should have created (and displayed) only one set of folders for the new Mail
Account. Then, I suspect, the existing "Delete Account" software would have
worked correctly.

theme = classic
Build = standard (not GTK2+XFT)
Linux = Mandrake 10.1 with all maintenance applied

Comment 1

[Rick Stockton]

unconfirmed by me as well. 

Due to other commitments, I haven't had time to retry this Account
creation/destruction in a new nightly of 1.8.x. (I'm Now running 1.7.7 GTK2+XFT
with Adblock).

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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