706791 - Change initial account numbers in prefs.js

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Ulf Zibis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

- initial start of TB
- installed 1. account
- installed 2. account


Actual results:

user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1");  // 1. account
user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server1");
user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2");  // local folder
user_pref("mail.account.account3.identities", "id2");  // 2. account
user_pref("mail.account.account3.server", "server3");



Expected results:

More reasonable numbering for values in prefs.js from initial start to ease things like described in bug 706461.
Special accounts such as 'local folders', 'smart mailboxes' should be numbered special, e.g. 0, 998, 999, so we would result in fine pairs at least for:
user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server1");
user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2");
...
Maybe non-default identities could be numbered above some threshold:
user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1,id101");
user_pref("mail.account.account2.identities", "id2");

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sorry, but i'm marking this wontfix. Changing this would be very risky with really no gain. Those prefs aren't really meant to be edited by hand, but if you do you should know what you're doing.