Linux (1999-09-20-08 M11) Steps: 1. From the ./seamonkey/package directory, type ./mozilla-apprunner.sh -mail 2. Profiles and Migration dialog comes up, click on the New button to bring up the Communicator Profile Manager 3. Click on Next (at the bottom) 4. Enter New Profile Name: qatest01 and click Finish. 5. Back to Profiles and Migration dialog, select qatest01, which is the newly created User Name. 6. And click on the Start button 7. This brings up the New Messenger Account Wizard, click on Next 8. Enter text in the text fields: Your Name: qatest01 Email address: qatest01@netscape.com 9. Click Next 10. Enter Server Information: Server Name: nsmail-2.netscape.com Sever Mame: smtp.netscape.net 11. Click Next 12. Name and password: User Name: qatest01 Password: (password) 13. Click Next 14. Enter Account name: qatest01 click Next, click Finish 15. Apprunner Messenger comes up 16. Click on the qatest01 account from the Folder pane to display the folders, (do it twice, so that Inbox is displayed.) 17. Select Inbox Actual result: Nothing happens. No message is loaded. A prefs.js file is created from the New Account setup but it does not work. Loading mail message does not work. Expect result: Messages should be loaded. Using the New Account Setup creates a prefs.js file. When prefs.js works, it should be be able to load mail messages. Will test Win_nt and Mac later.

Alec, can you redirect this to the appropriate owner? It came to me because the profile manager component was used without an explicit owner. Lisa is getting that fixed soon...

fenella, you have to click "Get Messages" to download the messages from the server. Scott, do you have any plans/bugs about downloading messages automatically if the inbox is empty or anything?

I don't have any plans about this. I would think that IMAP and News should do the right thing. They are both given the chance to say that they need to download messages in ManyHeadersToDownload. Something must be working incorrectly in that.

oops, imap and news do, I meant for POP, sorry....

I guess eventually we'll have to do something for this case.

Sorry. I forgot to mention that I did click on Get Msg. Yes. this was done. But message still does not load. However, when I exit/relaunch apprunner messenger. The messages are loaded. May be the summary should be modified to: New Account setup prefs.js does not load message automatically. It only loads messages after exit/re-launch apprunner messenger. This also occurs on Win32 as well (1999-09-20-13 M11)

changing component to Front End (I'm in the middle of removing the Profile Manager component)

Does this happen on Windows also?

Nevermind. I see the comment that it does.

does this still happen?

Fenella is out for another week.

Linux (2000-04-10-08 M15) win32 (2000-04-10-09 M15) This problem does not exist any more. However, when I try it on Mac, I got a crash when I got to step 6.

I'm marking this fixed since step 6 shouldn't be related to this bug.

Mac (2000-04-11-08 M15) This problem has been fixed on Mac too.