293584 - Cannot create news account

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Nico Erichsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.2 (20050317)

Trying to create a new news account fails without error - no account appears,
although some new entries are made in the prefs.js . 

I am adding my prefs.js and a screenshot.

The ccount manager seems quite messed up at the moment.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Probably (I did not actually try it):
1.copy the attached prefs.js in your thunderbird installation
2.try to create a new account

Actual Results:  
The wizard completes without error, but no new account appears.

Expected Results:  
Should display a new account

This occurred after I had to do some manual tweaking in the prefs.js to make TB
accept two news accounts on the same server . 

I had the same problem before, however, with an unchanged prefs.js .

Comment 1

[Nico Erichsen]

Attachment: The prefs.js file announced in the report

Comment 2

[Nico Erichsen]

Attachment: Screenshot of Thunderbird using that prefs.js file

Comment 3

[Nico Erichsen]

This might be related with bugs #226303 and #238006 .

Comment 4

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