97230 - AutoConfig: Email Address Not used upon migration

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[lrg]

When a user profile is migrated into a new installation of Netscape 6, (from 
netscape 4.7x for example), the mail news account settings are migrated as well. 
 Therefore it is possible for a user to have a defined email address the first 
time the product is loaded.

The autoadmin.append_emailaddr pref will send the profile user name to the 
autoconfig server in the event that there is no email address present.  

The problem is in a case where the email address is imported, the imported email 
address values will not be used until mail/news is launched, at which point the 
new value will be immediately used (without exiting the browser).

Comment 1

[Mitesh Shah]

During the pref migration, the mail default account has not yet created when
autoconfig is running. AutoConfig checks for the
mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount pref and if it's not present it uses the
profile name to append to the config URL. Mail prefs are migrated only when the
first time the mail is started. If we really want the migrated email address to
be used during autoconfig, we can change the code to also check for
'mail.user.identity' pref (which is a 4.x pref email address pref) but I think
we will wait for the feedback from the field. 

Comment 2

[tao]

mitesh is no longer with us. reassigning to default module owner. bug 113387
tracks the original list of mitesh bugs

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

all email addresses in this bug are dead

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

This is a non issue since Firefox doesn't have mail news