I did a lot of testing with multiple accounts settings recently. I found the most demanding feature there is SMTP management. I have listed several bugs for this. My account setting has a multitude of email addresses (i.e. one per account) split over several host accounts with *the same provider, i.e. the same server address*. This might be an important information for bug search / design topics. This bug: SMTP list display enhancement This is not trivial! The current SMTP list depicts only the plain server address. As a consequence in my multiple accounts setting I get the following very informative list of my SMTP choices: #START LIST mail.gmx.de (Default) mail.gmx.de (Default) mail.gmx.de mail.gmx.de mail.gmx.de mail.gmx.de mail.gmx.de mail.gmx.de #END LIST This is rediculous. Nobody can work with that! In my earlier proposal of new accounts structures (Bug #120926, which was rejected) I have purposefully spoken of "pairs of <SMTP-server> : <user-name>" as the relevant identity of SMTP entries. Everybody was wondering, here you can see why. TASK: enhance display line to display "<server address> : <server account user name>" Example: #START LIST mail.gmx.de : we635@gmx.de mail.gmx.de : 92839028@gmx.de mail.gmx.de : 12786237 mail.t-online.de : brezensieb #END LIST An alternate proposal (Ben Bucksch) was to introduce nicknames for each entry an display that, but I'm not convinced of that approach as it bears no information about the technical identity, which I find very helpful if not essential for managing SMTP list. - Wolf Eichler

Hasn't this already been implemented elsewhere? In the Compose window, I can choose which "From" address to use - this is identified in the pulldown using my various addresses and the "Nickname" I gave the account, which appears in italics and gray preceded by a dash. how hard would it be (I AM NOT A CODER AND DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER SO DON't CRUCIFY ME) to use this pulldown code and query the smtp server instead of the account's e-mail address?

No, what is in question here is the list of SMTP servers, not the Account list. Both are, though related, something different. And what concerns "hard", it is not in the slightest hard to add what I suggested to the display. This is just a question of decission. And of finding someone to work on it. Unfortunately I am not able to work with the code otherwise I would have offered a patch months ago. - Wolf

Reporter: Can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of Mozilla (for example, 1.4 RC1)? If so, then please comment again with details. If not, then please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks.

I can confirm this bug, but it is a dupe of 158099 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158099 ***