43484 - Order of accounts in Mail folder pane and Account Settings

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P1)

Description

[jglick]

"Local Folders" should always be the last account level item in the folder pane.

All Mail accounts should come before all News accounts.

Order:
Mail Accounts (in order added, default is generally first, unless later changed)
News Accounts (in order added)
Local Folders

Comment 1

[jglick]

nominate as nsbeta3

Comment 2

[lchiang]

Ninoschka - don't we have another bug against alecf on ordering of accounts in 
the folder pane?

Comment 3

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking bug# 28633 a duplicate of this one.

Bug# 28633 states that the accounts are in arbitrary order and explains that the 
order in Account Settings and the Folder pane do not match. 

This bug gives more directions on what order the accounts should be. We should 
also make sure that the order of accounts displayed in Account Settings matches 
the order displayed in the Folder pane. 

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 28633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

this is an account manager bug, reassigning to me.

Comment 6

[jglick]

Set to Priority 1 based on UE review meetings.

Comment 7

[jglick]

Opps, my error. After meeting with Mail team, order should be:

All Mail Accounts (default account at top, then in order added), 
Local Folders, 
All News Accounts (in order added).

Comment 8

[lchiang]

+ per mail triage
If Jennifer's solution is hard to implement, is there a way to have the default 
mail server always be at the top of the folder pane?

Comment 9

[Alec Flett]

jennifer's solution is easy, I'll do that.

Comment 10

[Alec Flett]

the one thing about the fix I'm about to checkin is that it doesn't update the
order when someone clicks on the "set as default" button, but that should go in
another bug, and probably doesn't need to be nsbeta3'd

Comment 11

[Alec Flett]

fix is in

Comment 12

[Alec Flett]

jennifer, you saw this was already fixed, right? :)

Comment 13

[jglick]

Yah, I saw it was fixed!  :-)

I thought if folks wanted to do a search for the usability bugs and see their 
status (how many fixed, how many still open, etc.), it would be good to include 
the fixed ones also.  That way, people can see how good the mail folks are at 
getting stuff fixed!  :-)

Comment 14

[timeless]

Adding ue1 because i felt like it? akin to [e-mail]'s 
nsbeta2/nsbeta3 keyword mass spams.

Comment 15

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2000-08-25-08M18: NT4, Linux 6.0, Mac 9.04

It's working much better!

1. Mail folders appear first, followed by Local Folders and then News accounts.
2. Changing the default mail account
- When changing the default mail account (i.e. to qatest33) the change is not
reflected immediately in Account Settings, close the dialog.
- It is not reflected in the Mail folder pane
- Open Account Settings and now the new default account (qatest33) is at the top
of the list, close the dialog.
- The mail folder still does not reflect the change
- The change appears after:
   - Mail is closed and opened again via Navigator, then switch back to Mail.
   - Exiting and restarting Mail.

Question: Can we make the change sooner or should I log another bug to address
item 2 for the next release.

Comment 16

[Alec Flett]

yeah, let's deal with it in a later release... new bug!

Comment 17

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Fixed.

Issue #2: For the new default mail account to appear first and immediatley is
logged in bug# 50841.

Comment 18

[Jerry Baker]

Fixing this bug broke bug 10215