After you post this to bugzilla please let me know what the number is so that I can vote for it.
Ben Ruppel wrote: > Okay, how many of us have reinstalled mozilla (or NS4.x for that matter) > or made some other change, where you start up Mail and your previous > mail and news accounts don't show up any more? I've seen quite a few > posts with confused questions about this, and I have experienced it myself. > > Right now, I know that prefs.js contains a lot of information about your > various accounts, and I have three folders: ImapMail, Mail, and News. It > would be great if the appropriate prefs.js for each of my accounts were > spread out into files in each of these directories. > > That way, I could take my News folder and copy it to another profile > directory. Then mozilla would start up with that profile, see news, get > the prefs from the news directory, and load it appropriately. > > This kind of behavior would be so much better than the way NS4.x and > Mozilla determine your mail settings (which seems to involve voodoo > sometimes). It would also be nice to be able to nuke my prefs (for > troubleshooting purposes) without endangering all of my messages. > > I just wanted to post this here before filing a bug to get opinions. >
