362830 - only 1+19 accounts displayed in account manager and "receive email for..." menu

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Christian Deligant]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; it; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird [IT] versione 1.5.0.8 (20061025)

If you make more than 20 accounts, only the first 19 + the default account will be visible in the account manager. Allthough everything works fine. If you go in prefs.js, you can see all of them.
It is still possible to change the order they are displayed, in order to access their details editing the line 
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account6,account8,account10,account15,account22,account2,account3,account4,account5,account7,account9,account11,account12,account13,account14,account16,account17,account18,account19,account20,account21");
in prefs.js

By the way, it should be great to put an "order" button (or an up/down shifting) for the accounts, as the mailboxes on the left panel are in the same order as the accounts on the manager.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create more than 20 accounts on the same identity
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
on completion of the 21st (and others), it is not visible in the manager, but editing the variable user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts") putting the last account on top of the first, you can see that one but "lose" the last!

Expected Results:  
The Manager should display all the accounts created

The most important issue is that you cannot delete a user if it is the 20+nth one...
No idea if this can be exploited in any way, but the fact that you have no control on the details of the last accounts created (without fiddling around on the main prefs.js file!) may be a security risk? This is  why I flagged the security risk option below...

Thank you for the job you're doing!

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Not a security risk since this is entirely under the user's control.

Comment 2

[Christian Deligant]

I agree: the doubt was that it is under control only if the user is smart enough and has enough abilities to find out where to go and what to do in the prefs.js file... and if the user has enough "gut" to make the changes

Thank you again for taking care of this "bug"

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Christian, please post screen shot of what you are seeing in account manager. Are you still on win9x?

Comment 4

[Christian Deligant]

Attachment: Account manager of my thunderbird

This is the account manager of my thunderbird.

I still have Win98 (BTW: why thorw away an imperfect system but still better than newer ones :D)

Comment 5

[Christian Deligant]

Here is an exerpt of my prefs.js file

<code>
user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server1");
user_pref("mail.account.account10.identities", "id9");
user_pref("mail.account.account10.server", "server10");
user_pref("mail.account.account11.identities", "id10");
user_pref("mail.account.account11.server", "server11");
user_pref("mail.account.account12.identities", "id11");
user_pref("mail.account.account12.server", "server12");
user_pref("mail.account.account13.identities", "id12");
user_pref("mail.account.account13.server", "server13");
user_pref("mail.account.account14.identities", "id13");
user_pref("mail.account.account14.server", "server14");
user_pref("mail.account.account15.identities", "id14");
user_pref("mail.account.account15.server", "server15");
user_pref("mail.account.account16.identities", "id15");
user_pref("mail.account.account16.server", "server16");
user_pref("mail.account.account17.identities", "id16");
user_pref("mail.account.account17.server", "server17");
user_pref("mail.account.account18.identities", "id17");
user_pref("mail.account.account18.server", "server18");
user_pref("mail.account.account19.identities", "id18");
user_pref("mail.account.account19.server", "server19");
user_pref("mail.account.account2.identities", "id1");
user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2");
user_pref("mail.account.account20.identities", "id19");
user_pref("mail.account.account20.server", "server20");
user_pref("mail.account.account21.identities", "id20");
user_pref("mail.account.account21.server", "server21");
user_pref("mail.account.account22.identities", "id21");
user_pref("mail.account.account22.server", "server22");
user_pref("mail.account.account3.identities", "id2");
user_pref("mail.account.account3.server", "server3");
user_pref("mail.account.account4.identities", "id3");
user_pref("mail.account.account4.server", "server4");
user_pref("mail.account.account5.identities", "id4");
user_pref("mail.account.account5.server", "server5");
user_pref("mail.account.account6.identities", "id5");
user_pref("mail.account.account6.server", "server6");
user_pref("mail.account.account7.identities", "id6");
user_pref("mail.account.account7.server", "server7");
user_pref("mail.account.account8.identities", "id7");
user_pref("mail.account.account8.server", "server8");
user_pref("mail.account.account9.identities", "id8");
user_pref("mail.account.account9.server", "server9");
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account6,account8,account15,account22,account2,account3,account4,account5,account7,account9,account13,account14,account16,account17,account18,account19,account20,account21,account10,account11,account12");
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account21");
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server1");
</code>

thank you

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I don't see this in version 2 or trunk on vista. Version 1.5 is no longer suported and if you see this on version 2 then I'm guessing it's a limitation of TB+w98. Note, w98 isn't supported after version 2, i.e. the next release due out.

Comment 7

[Christian Deligant]

I have TB version 2.0.0.14

> Note, w98 isn't supported after version 2, 
> i.e. the next release due out.

Thank you for the info. I hope the Debian version will still be supported.

Anyway, I am about to switch to a Debian Linux Box with 2 virtualmachines. When I'm done I will tell you if icedove can cope with more than 20 accounts.

Comment 8

[Steve Simms]

Works for me on 2.0.0.16 on a Mac (in Account Settings, 3-pane view, and compose).  Reporter, have you tried it on Debian?  If not, I can try it on RHEL.

Comment 9

[Nikolay Shopik]

Closing Incomplete for lack of answers.

Feel free to reopen if you can provide more information.