989591 - Adding movemail account brings up add news account wizard

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Stuart Longland]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140111130901

Steps to reproduce:

Clicked Edit → Account Settings → Account Actions → Add Other Account

It immediately asks for a name and email address, which I enter.
Click Next…


Actual results:

It asks for a newsgroup server.


Expected results:

It used to ask for whether we were adding a newsgroup server or a movemail server before asking for an email address.  It seems to no longer do this and instead immediately assumes I want a newsgroup account.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Stuart, do you still see this problem when using a newer version??

Comment 2

[:aceman]

I do not see this in current builds. It first asks whether creating a movemail or news account.

Stuart, are you actually trying it on linux? Because on Windows the movemail option is not there.

Comment 3

[Stuart Longland]

I tried it the other day and thought I had mentioned that.  Ahh well.  Yes, It's working now in Thunderbird 38.4.

Yes I am running it in Linux, as Movemail is a Unix concept, I'd be surprised to see it implemented on Windows.  (That said, it'd be nice to point it to an instance of Cygwin and have it work.)

Comment 4

[Stuart Longland]

I'll mark this as resolved, if someone strikes the same problem we can always re-open it but it seems to be fixed now.

Comment 5

[Stuart Longland]

I'll mark this as resolved, if someone strikes the same problem we can always re-open it but it seems to be fixed now.

Comment 6

[Stuart Longland]

Gah, wrong status.