Bug 107675 posted. <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107675>
Jason Boerner wrote: > 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. >> > >
