Bug 455770

Summary:	mail-client/thunderbird - after changes to initial account setup, thunderbird can not fetch imap because it confuses username and e-mail address
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonas Stein <jstein>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2013-02-06 00:42:16 UTC

Thunderbird 17.0.2 can not fetch imap because it mixes username and mailaddress.

Let username be foo@mydomain.bar or 1234 (both can be used at same time)
mydomain.bar runs the IMAP server and foo@myotherdomain.bar is an alias to 
foo@mydomain.bar


1. Create a new account with the wizard for a large provider that uses usernames and mailaddresses as USER like domainfactory (http://df.eu)
for foo@mydomain.bar

2. IMAP WORKS

3. Now change the mailaddress and the account name to foo@myotherdomain.bar
   leave the username in the serversettings as they are. But leave IMAP-SERVER
   and USERNAME untouched.

4. IMAP FAILS
   Thunderbird is confused and tries to fetch calims it could not fetch mail from
   server "foo@myotherdomain.bar"

5. The workaround: If you change username foo@mydomain.bar to the username 1234
   thunderbird will fetch from the correct server again and IMAP WORKS.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-06 03:48:42 UTC

Upstream? This is a well known annoyance, I think.

Comment 2 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2015-02-21 10:46:42 UTC

should we close
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455770 ?
I think Thunderbird 17 is quite old (31.4.0 currently) and no one will
ever care about this bug again.