477526 - "Add account" blocked on newsgroup account after adding a newsgroup

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Clarke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090208 Shredder/3.0b2pre

After adding a newsgroup (through the link in "Welcome to Shredder" dialogue box), it is impossible to add any new account other than a news account. The "Add account..." button goes straight into the new news account, no mail options appear.

This is reproducible every time, and is still the case after stopping/starting Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete any old preference, and launch Thunderbird.
2. Follow the new account wizard, and create any mail account
3. Expand the new account, click on Inbox
4. The "Welcome to Shredder!" page appears. Click on the link "newsgroup" under "Give Feedback" header and confirm.
5. Go into "Account settings" and click "Add account...".
Actual Results:  
The dialog box that appears prompts to type in a name and email address. On the second screen, it asks for a NNTP server.

Expected Results:  
The dialog box should ask about the type of account to create.

This bug is consistent after stopping and restarting Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Phenomenon was observed with Tb trunk 2009/2/08 build on MS Win-XP.

After step 4, following entries were created for news account.
> user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account2,account3");
>   account1=Local Folders, account2=POP3 account by step 2. account3=news account by step 4.
> user_pref("mail.account.account3.identities", "id2");
> user_pref("mail.account.account3.server", "server3");
> user_pref("mail.identity.id2.compose_html", false);
> user_pref("mail.server.server3.xxx, ...);
> user_pref("mail.server.server3.hostname", "news.mozilla.org");
> user_pref("mail.server.server3.yyy, ...);
> user_pref("mail.server.server3.name", "news.mozilla.org");
> user_pref("mail.server.server3.type", "nntp");
> user_pref("mail.server.server3.valid", false);
Try step 5 => Phenomenon was observed => reply CANCEL to the Account Wizard.
After shutdown of Tb, following entry was added to prefs.js. 
> user_pref("mail.identity.id2.useremail", "[e-mail]");

Confirming.
Bug 476135 was changed to FIXED at 2009-02-03 08:49:04 PST.
> Bug 476135 Clicking on bad newsgroup link messes up Thunderbird's accounts
Problem with "valid news link" seems to still remain.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Surely this no longer exists?