User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 (20030901) I am unable to select an alternate SMTP server in Account Settings / <account > / Server Settings / Advanced after adding an alternate SMTP server in Account Settings / Outgoing Server (SMTP) / Advanced if more than one server is specified using the same IP address, but different ports (I use SSH2 port- forwarding for all of my IMAP/SMTP traffic, and it's convienient to bind the mail transport ports to unused non-privledged ports on 127.0.0.1, instead of having to use seperate localhost adapters). My default SMTP server is set to 127.0.0.1:2025 - I wanted to add 127.0.0.1:3025, and the UI in Account Settings / Outgoing Server (SMTP) / Advanced reflected the new entry. However, in Account Settings / <account > / Server Settings / Advanced it does not appear in the list box on the SMTP tab. Using 127.0.0.2:3025, it seems to work fine. It seems like the Server Settings / Advanced UI doesn't list multiple SMTP servers with the same IP address. Please contact me for any additional information you may need. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add a second SMTP server in Account Settings / Outgoing SMTP Server (SMTP) / Advanced with the same IP address (but a different port number) as your default SMTP server 2. from Account Settings / <account > / Server Settings / Advanced try to select the newly added SMTP server from the list box enumerating the available SMTP servers on the SMTP tab Actual Results: The SMTP server just added will not show up in the list box enumerating the available SMTP servers on the SMTP tab in Account Settings / <account > / Server Settings / Advanced Expected Results: Listed the newly added SMTP server (even though its IP address may be the same as another SMTP server already in the list of SMTP servers, it could use a different port) Especially for people using various forms of client-side port-forwarding (e.g. SSH2), it's useful to be able to specify multiple SMTP servers that use the same IP address (e.g. 127.0.0.1) .

moving to the right component. this is not tbird specific.

Worksforme on 2003101604-trunk/Win-Me. I found that SMTP server format was already changed to <SMTP_Server_Name>:<Port_Number> instead of <SMTP_Server_Name> only format. Changed by Bug 220520 or Bug 220913?

Reporter, problem still remains on newer builds? If old SMTP server definition is the cause, what happens when you delete old SMTP server definition and define two new SMTP server entries with same server address but different port address? Please note that SMTP server choice of accounts are not changed automaticaly on SMTP server definition change. Go Accoutn Settings/Server Settings/Advanced and choose "Always USe Default (SMTP) Server" or appropriate SMTP server.

I've tried changing to "always use default server", but it didn't make any difference (except I can send the mail if I shut down yahoopops and start up hotmail popper). I can't find where even to specify the outgoing port in the Account Settings. Am I missing something? (It would be really nice to get rid of hotmail entirely, if I can get Mozilla to recognize yahoopops.) Renée (I'm using Mozilla 1.5 (5.0 Windows) on WinXP with hotmail popper for my hotmail accounts, a couple of hotpop accounts and *receiving* mail on yahoopopper only.)

In the "Advanced Outgoing Sever (SMTP) Settings" dialogue box, NO matter which SMTP server is set default, always the first/top SMTP server in the list is used. Fail as a different ISP is used.

Mail/News has a poorly designed SMTP user interface. This type of problem is normally an enhancement, and would thus be of low priority to developers. However, the bad design of the SMTP user interface is causing a number of users to file spurious bugs. It is also resulting in a lot of grief (the magnitude of which is not recognized, because it is dispersed between a number of different bugs). This is a problem with both Mozilla Mail/News and Thunderbird. It remains a problem even in these, more recent versions: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040207) Although no single SMTP bug has that many votes, the sum of votes for those bugs partially or wholly dependent upon UI problems is rather large. These bugs aren't really bugs, but are users who are mislead by the UI: bug 228643 - Outgoing Server settings ignore the default bug 170089 - default server value not being used to send mail. Mail cannot be sent. bug 222064 - don't remember the updated default SMTP server. Can't use more then one SMTP server These bugs all mention or are in part due to bad UI design: bug 202468 - 3 votes - Simpler, more consolidated UI for SMTP server settings bug 52384 - 27 votes - difficult to define multiple smtp servers and quickly/automatically switch between them bug 154453 - 2 votes - SMTP setting dialog totally corrupted bug 218518 comment 4 and comment 5 - unable to select alternate SMTP server in Account Settings bug 226017 - Should try other SMTP servers when default doesn't work Note that all of these bugs can't simply be marked closed and consolidated into one bug (most contain more than one issue with the way SMTP servers are entered & organized). However, I suggest that the UI aspects of these bugs be consolidated into bug 202468 . Let's all vote for it, and hopefully get some work done on this UI! Andy

Closing as WORKSFORME because this bug's problem(no port number in SMTP entry name) is already resolved but it is unclear which bug resolved the problem. Renée Boileau(poster of Comment #4), your problem is different from this bug. Open a new bug since "one problem per bug" is rule, if similar bugs are not found after search of bugzilla.mpozilla.org.