Seamonkey - BUG - Accounts Manager assumes every new account you want is
to be a newsfeed account only - FIX INSTRUCTIONS:
Problem:
You want to make either a new 'Email account' or a new 'Blogs &
Newsfeeds' account,
from the Accounts wizard ( File > New > Account ).
But instead of getting the normal standard 3 questions about which type
of account you
want to make. i.e.
1. Email account
2. Blogs and news feeds
3. News group account.
Instead, the Account Wizard 'assumes' you want to make an 'News group
account.',
it gives you no other option at all.
1. Type the following into the URL Bar (where your internet address shows)
about:config
A window will come up with the following:
! This might void your warranty!
Changing these advanced settings can be harmful to the stability,
security, and performance of this
application. You should only continue if you are sure of what you
are doing.
Press the 'I'll be careful, I promise!' button.
You will now have an entire list of seamonkey system modifiers (or
strings as their often called)
These seamonkey modifiers (or 'strings') have either 1 of the following
values:
1. A numeric value
or
2. An ascii text representing something
or
3. A switch that can be either 'false' or 'true'
The 'value' (the field with that name on the absolute right) displays
what is often called a 'variable'.
This is something that can usually be changed (or though not always).
All the variables are displayed accordingly under this heading/title.
Type the following in the search bar just above the 'preference name' field.
(_NOT_ the normal seamonkey browser Ctrl-F 'Find in page' option.)
mail.server.server
This will (or should) show ALL of your email accounts.
If you have literally HEAPS of email accounts (like say 30 for example),
then one quick way i have found to look for the email accounts(s) that
have the text 'valid' at the very end of them is to do the following:
1. Click on the 'Preference Name' heading/title itself.
This will list all the email accounts listed under this
heading/title in alpha numeric order.
2. Bring the scroll bar up to the very top (can use home and end keys as
well to do this).
Now all of your accounts - email, newsgroups, etc, etc, have a number
associated with them.
Seamonkey Newsgroup Account - Actual example list:
mail.server.server9.valid
mail.server.server9.type
mail.server.server9.storeContractID
mail.server.server9.spamActionTargetAccount
mail.server.server9.socketType
mail.server.server9.port
mail.server.server9.numHdrsToKeep
mail.server.server9.newsrc.file-rel
mail.server.server9.newsrc.file
mail.server.server9.name
mail.server.server9.max_cached_connections
mail.server.server9.max_articles
mail.server.server9.login_at_startup
mail.server.server9.keepUnreadOnly
mail.server.server9.hostname
mail.server.server9.downloadUnreadOnly
mail.server.server9.downloadByDate
mail.server.server9.directory-rel
mail.server.server9.directory
mail.server.server9.daysToKeepHdrs
mail.server.server9.daysToKeepBodies
mail.server.server9.cleanupBodies
mail.server.server9.check_new_mail
mail.server.server9.charset
mail.server.server9.applyToFlaggedMessages
mail.server.server9.ageLimit
IMAP EMAIL ACCOUNT EXAMPLE:
mail.server.server8.userName
mail.server.server8.type
mail.server.server8.timeout
mail.server.server8.storeContractID
mail.server.server8.spamActionTargetFolder
mail.server.server8.spamActionTargetAccount
mail.server.server8.socketType
mail.server.server8.serverIDResponse
mail.server.server8.port
mail.server.server8.namespace.personal
mail.server.server8.name
mail.server.server8.moveTargetMode
mail.server.server8.moveOnSpam
mail.server.server8.max_cached_connections
mail.server.server8.login_at_startup
mail.server.server8.hostname
mail.server.server8.directory-rel
mail.server.server8.directory
mail.server.server8.check_time
mail.server.server8.check_new_mail
mail.server.server8.capability
mail.server.server8.cacheCapa.quota
mail.server.server8.cacheCapa.acl
To quickly find any possible accounts to correct, look for the text
'valid' above the
word 'type' (or just the letter 't' itself) - this is easyer when done
in an alpha numerically
sorted list.
Both of the above are actual direct copies of both my Seamonkey
Newsgroup Account &
my IMAP Email accounts of which i have a total of 32.
The number 8 being just 1 account. This list pretty much repeats again
with all my other
email accounts except with numbers ranging from 1 to 32, instead of just
this number 8 account example.
Dont assume that the numbers directly linearly increase in relation to
'When' the accounts were made.
I dont know how the numbers get assigned. It's not important for the
purpose we are trying to achieve.
NOTE: These are the 'strings' for IMAP Email accounts in windows
seamonkey Version 2.26.1
(current at time of writing this).
Because things change and get updated/upgraded over time with newer
release versions of seamonkey,
some of these 'strings' may possibly either get name changes, or be
replaced with other strings,
more strings added later on, strings removed, etc, etc.
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Look for one of your accounts that has been flagged as invalid.
(mail.server.serverX.valid = false, where X is a number).
The fix involves changing the value of that key to true or to delete the
problem account.
Once that's cleaned up, you should be able to use the account wizard as
usual.
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True Example - My Seamonkey Newsgroup Account - and how i corrected:
Preference Name: Status: Type: Value:
mail.server.server9.valid user set boolean false
Double click on the line with the email account(s) and/or Newsgroup
acconut(s) that have the
text 'valid' after a fullstop AND have the word 'false' underneath the
'Value' column/header
to change the word to 'true'.
This real example in my case happens to be the number 9, but it could be
any number at all (any account)
The irony is that the only email account which had the variable set to
'false'
was actually the 'news.mozilla.org' newsgroup account.
this problem could happen after making some account, wether it be email,
or a 'News group' account.
I changed the variable to 'true'. I closed seamonkey and re-opened
seamonkey, and the account manager wizard
was working good as new again, i.e. when i went to make a new account i
had all options again:
1. Email account
2. Blogs and news feeds
3. News group account
Original thanks to 'Trane Francks' for providing me with the information
needed to correct this problem.
Ben - Written on DATE: Thursday the 31'st of July, 2014
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