Closed Bug 41162 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

No warning issued when a duplicate account creation is attempted

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Account Configuration
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 20401

People

(Reporter: momoi, Assigned: alecf)

Details

** Observed with 5/31/2000 Win32 build **

When you're creating a new mail account and if the e-mail address
you entered happen to exist in the account database, you get no
warning and no account is created.
I don't have a complaint about not creating 2 accounts bearing the
identical e-mail addresses. But not warning why an account cannot be
created is not very friendly.
I would prefer to see us offer an option to change the e-mail
address to a non-overlapping one so that all the data you have
entered up to the "finish" button will not be wasted.
QA Contact: lchiang → nbaca
this is a dupe
The closest I could find is bug# 29579 which states that two different AOL 
accounts appear the same. I think this bug is different because the account 
information is the same and it's asking for some type of warning.

I noticed that when the email address and server are the same then a new account 
is Not created. When the email address is the same and the server is different 
then it created a new account (Build 2000-05-30-09M116: Win95)
found it.. that bug applies to all servers though, not just news

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20401 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Target Milestone: --- → M20
Verified Duplicate.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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