From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (WinNT; I) BuildID: 200101240 If there are no news or mail account's configured and if we try to open new Message composition window , it shows by any of the menthods like File-> new message or clicking on New Mesg on Mail window it shows an alert appropriately and it will not allow to open the compose window until and unless you create an account. This is fine.. Observe this scenario. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Mail window (Tasks->Mail) having few acount's already configured. 2.Select Edit-> News/mail Account settings, it opens an account settings window. 3.select an account and click on Delete, simillarly delete all news and mail accounts and say Ok on the dialog. 4.Now Click on New Mesg. button or select File->New ->Message Actual Results: An alert comes up saying "An error has occured while creating message compose window. please try again , Type error: Item has no properties" Expected Results: It is better if it shows a window to create new news/Mail account first and then the compose window if the account is created.

this sounds valid. you can delete all account except for "Local Folders", but "Local Folders" doesn't have an identity. I know varada added some code to "do the right thing" if you hit "new message" when you have no accounts, it sounds like we need to hit that code if we have no identities. re-assign to varada for now, but it might be a bug for racham.

confirming, updating summary.

This problem was fixed so that when we dont have delete all mail accounts and we bring up the compose window it brings up the account wizard. This was fixed by 70540 - marking dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70540 ***

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