I hope to have this for m11.

if we have a new user, who isn't migrating, I have one other related change to make: don't automatically create a "Local Mail" account. the code needs to be changed to: if you create a new IMAP server, create a "Local Mail" (type=none) account unless one already exists accepting.

I've got a fix in my tree. I'll do some serious testing tomorrow and get it reviewed, and hopefully make it into m11. I think with will help prevent confusion (for pop users.)

What about the case of the new profile who just creates a news account?

update status whiteboard.

in the case where you create just news.... the point of having a "Local Mail" account would be to get a Sent, Trash, Drafts Unsent Messages (send later) and Templates folder. if they had just news, they'd still want those folders. so, in that case, I'd say create a Local Mail account, if one doesn't exist, when a news account is created. agreed?

a problem the news scenario just described... if they have pop, and add a news, do they reall need pop, local mail, and news? That seems wrong. perhaps we should do as alecf suggested: only create a "Local Mail" if you create a new server and no other "mailbox:/" server exists. (pop or none, aka. "Local Mail").

fixed. the only unresolved issue is that news issue that laurel raised. I'll open a new bug on that, and fix it when we decided what todo.-

Verified for most basic scenarios on all platforms using commercial builds nov8 and nov 9. Any specific scenarios with problems will be logged as separate issues.