529905 - manual account setup does not default to Use Default Server for outgoing server

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

This is based on litmus test "11: Always Use Default SMTP Server" under "Testcases - : Account settings & Preferences (Options)"

I may not be understanding the expected behavior, but as I understand it, that test is to make sure that if you set up an account manually, 

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8971/tbmanual1.png

the setting for outgoing mail server is filled in by Thunderbird to be 'Use Default Server' and not whatever was auto-detected for that account.

I marked that test as "fail" because:

1 - after clicking to manual setup, the account displayed in the Account Settings window is not the one I was setting up (it selects the first existing account in the list instead)

2 - when I do select the account I was setting up, the outgoing mail server is the one detected during automatic setup (and not 'Use Default Server', as this litmus test specifies.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Similar to or same as bug 522725.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I guess you mean https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=9593 - that is only applicable for the "old" account wiz... but i guess we can use this bug to make it work in the "new" quick account setup.

Comment 3

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I guess you mean https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=9593 - 

Yes, that's right.  

> that is only applicable for the "old" account wiz... 

Sorry for any confusion, and thanks for clarifying. I did check to verify I was testing the right UI, but I must not have asked the right way.

Comment 5

[:aceman]

That test has some successful runs at later dates. Is this problem still valid?