Closed Bug 636622 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

cannot add email account - wizard stuck on newsgroup account

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 521861

People

(Reporter: bugZ, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110224 Firefox/4.0b13pre SeaMonkey/2.1b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110224 Firefox/4.0b13pre SeaMonkey/2.1b3pre

The Add Account wizard in mail-news will not allow adding an email account--it doesn't even ask if I want to create a mail or newsgroup account. After entering my name and email address the next dialog asks for the Newsgroup Server name. Enter the pop3 mail server and the "Next" button is disabled and will not proceed. Email accounts cannot be added.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In mail-news, go to Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings
2. Pick Add Account
3. The Account Wizard pops up the Identity dialog - enter name and email address, then the Next button
4. The wizard pops up the Server Information dialog
Actual Results:  
The wizard asks for Newsgroup Server. The Next button is disabled until an NNTP server name is entered.

Expected Results:  
Some way to tell the wizard it's a pop3 server.
See Bug 521861 comment 1

> Problem source: The account is declared invalid, i.e. the
> mail.server.serverX.valid pref is set to false (where X is the matching
> account).

> Workarounds: Set mail.server.serverX.valid to true or delete invalid news
> account.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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