Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:29:10 +0300, /Stanimir Stamenkov/:
> 
>> On the other hand, I now see in the "Known Issues"
>> <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.2/#issues>:
>>
>>   * After creating a news account through clicking a news URL, the
>> MailNews account wizard may be broken (the account type will always
>> be News). To work around the problem, set the
>> mail.server.serverX.valid pref (where X is the internal number of
>> the corresponding news account) to true in about:config, or delete
>> the invalid news account (bug 521861).
>>
>> So you may try, after opening the "Mail and Newsgroup Account
>> Settings" dialog, searching for a suspicious additional news account
>> and delete it, if don't know how it got there. Then try to add the
>> new mail account.
> 
> If you don't find a suspicious additional news account to delete, you may
> have go the other way suggested in the release notes:
> 
>   * Open the <about:config> page - just enter "about:config" (w/o the
> quotes) in the Location/Address field of the browser;
>   * Enter ".valid" (w/o the quotes) in the "Filter:" field on the page;
>   * See if there are any "mail.server.serverX.valid" entries with value
> (in the rightmost column) of "false" - double click that entry to change
> the value to "true".
> 
> Please post back whether this or the previous suggestion has helped, so
> others possibly encountering the same problem may benefit from this
> thread, too.
> 

Yes, changing the "mail.server.serverX.valid" pref from 'false' to 'true'
fixed the problem. Now I can add a second email account.
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