331138 - Spurious 'News' Account Created

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41133

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5 (20051201)

Without my action, a spurious account named "news" was created.  No dots, no "com", just "News".  There were no newsgroups or folders for this account.  When I looked at the account settings for this account, it had not been setup.  

The cited URL contains a discussion of this problem, which others have apparently seen.  Unlike some who have seen this, I was able to remove the account via [Tools > Account Settings] and selecting the Remove Account button.  

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Moving to product: MozAppSuite
It might be a core bug, but I have yet to test it on Thunderbird.

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

I reported this problem for Thunderbird because that is the application I use as a newsgroup reader.  I do not use the MailNews component of SeaMonkey; I don't even have that component installed.  

I have seen this problem with Thunderbird more than once.  I have also seen reports of this problem in the mozilla.support.thunderbird newsgroup; those reports indicate the problem was seen in Thunderbird and not some other Mozilla product.  

Changing the product back to Thunderbird.  

The spurious account "News" repeatedly causes a popup requesting account ID information.  Removing this account is not straightforward.  Therefore, I am changing the Severity to Normal instead of Minor.  

Comment 3

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41133 ***