491158 - Inability to access multiple accounts through one tool bar top tier button click.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 281417

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[bentnhaf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.21 (20090302)

I have two primary email accounts. The "Set as default" choice only allows that selected account to be downloaded from when choosing "Get all new messages" from the tool bar "Get Mail" scroll down menu.  The tool bar "Get Mail" icon does nothing. You have to scroll down to access one of the account menu items and then have to do it again for any other accounts that one might have.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
...see "Details" above
Actual Results:  
...see "Details" above

Expected Results:  
...to be able to access multiple email accounts through one "click"

If one would want to access more than one email account at a time, that should be allowed and it shouldn't have to happen by plowing down through a scroll-down menu.  It would obviously be a sequentially accomplished task that would be triggered by allowing the "default" status to be applied to more than one account, not necessarily all of the installed/configured accounts.  MailWasher spam filtering does this, why not Thunderbird?

Comment 2

[bentnhaf]

I agree. All who see this, jump to bug 281417.  This issue was first recognized years ago and is still not addressed.  Its time.