543658 - Two accounts in google apps not works

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 303542

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[zkizzik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-CL; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

If make two accounts of google apps dont work...
test@domain1 and test@domain2 with same server pop.gmail.com on port 993 not detect else change values the account crash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new account [e-mail] with google apps, thunderbird find smtp example.com but is pop.gmail.com, change this to pop of gmail and change username "test" to "[e-mail]".

2. Create a new account again but [e-mail], use same server "pop.gmail.com" and username "[e-mail]"

3. Look the bug, have two account with same username, server, password and mail! dont have two accounts of googleapps :( .
Actual Results:  
thunderbird clone two accounts and not work

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
> If make two accounts of google apps dont work...
> test@domain1 and test@domain2 with same server pop.gmail.com (snip)

Gmail has many domain names for a Gmail's service (e.g. imap.gmail.com and imap.googlemail.com for same Gmail IMAP service), and gmail permits both [e-mail] and username for login in some cases(POP3 may be so).
As for Gmail IMAP, Tb3 defines [e-mail] with server name = imap.googlemail.com in my environment, if fully automatic setup.
And, Tb3 removes "@domain.com" part from username upon account definition, if login with test is posible.
So, next can happen in your case(same name, different domain);
 account1 : addr=[e-mail], hostname=pop3.googlemail.com, username=test
 account2 : addr=[e-mail], hostname=pop3.googlemail.com, username=test
Check account/server/identity definitions in your prefs.js.

Workaround:
(A) Define accout manually.
   - Account wizard, start account creation, "stop" immediately
   - Set server name(pop3.domain1.com), user name([e-mail])
   - Manual Setup, change accout definition appropriately
(B) Repeat Edit/Re-test Configration, until required user name/server name
    is displayed by Tb after auto-check.
    If unwanted result(e.g. test instead of [e-mail]), change to
    required one, and Manual Setup.

As required Gmail's SMTP/POP3/IMAP setup is well documented(server name, port, SSL/TLS for IMAP, StartTLS for SMTP, ...), I think full manual setup(A) is far easier to understand what you are doing.