296663 - Warn when identities have same name and address

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[L A Walsh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

I just noticed I had 2 identities -- both "Linda Walsh" <user@mymail> -- same
name, same email addr.  Shouldn't the identity creation dialogue complain
if there are duplicate entries -- perhaps even "warn" on "duplicate" email
addrs'?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 2 identities w/same name and email addr
2. that's it
3.

Actual Results:  
you get 2 duplicate identities

Expected Results:  
told me I'm an idiot for forgetting that I already had created the
identity...:-)  Ok, maybe worded a bit more nicely...

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

It's conceivable that you might want two identities with the same name and 
address but with other settings different.  For instance, I have two identities 
with the same name and address, but one has a sig and the other (my default) 
doesn't.  If I want to send the mail with the sig, I just pick the other 
identity.

The main problem with this is that the identity selector dropdown displays both 
identically.

Comment 2

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