975539 - [autoconfig] Add Mail Account auto-configuration should reuse existing config if available

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Greg Knox]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140212131424

Steps to reproduce:

Tools -> Account Settings -> Account Actions -> Add Mail Account... -> enter a new name,address,password for an account *on the same domain* as an existing account -> Continue


Actual results:

The message 'Looking up configuration: Email provider' appears next to a throbber that spins for about a minute.

Eventually the user is given some radio buttons to select whether to create an IMAP or POP3 account, with automatically determined Incoming/Outgoing servers.


Expected results:

The configuration process takes too long.

Since in this example the user already has an account for the domain, the autoconfiguration tool should take the server settings from this account, rather than trying to autodetect via whatever lookups / tests it currently performs. 

If these existing server settings fail to work, then it could fallback to it's current (slow) implementation.