Thunderbird 0.7 bug
By glazou on Wednesday 16 June 2004, 22:06 - Mozilla - Permalink
I have switched to Thunderbird 0.7 because of the multiple identity per account support. It's a great feature, I really needed it. But the feature is a big buggy. If you want to use it, you have to read the following:
- a new identity associated to an account will NOT use the corresponding SMTP server but the default SMTP server... That will allow you to add identities to one account and one only; if you try to do it for a second account, you have a problem with the mail server...
- it's probably a side-effect of the same bug : all mails sent using such an identity are saved in Local Folders, not in your account's folder.
Everything is probably caused by the way those identities are created, they are probably pseudo-accounts, and the default values for thos pseudo-accounts use the default SMTP server and the Local Folders. At least, it's a plausible explanation. But the bug is very annoying.
Nevermind... Just make sure you're running 0.7 and not a release candidate 
Sorry for that, Scott.
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BTW: Mozilla supports this too.
I think the fix for bug 202468 will solve the first problem.
If you look at the prefs file, there are actually 4 types of objects created: accounts, identities, servers and smtpservers.
Accounts just seem to be an association between one or more identities and a server. Identities contain your name, email address, signature, etc and the smtpserver to be used for sending email from the identity. Servers hold the IMAP or POP settings, and where to put the mail. Smtpservers hold the hostname of the SMTP server plus any authentication info needed.
So thunderbird should be able to represent the setup you want, even if the UI won't let you set it up. I guess it isn't that easy to design an easy to use UI that fully exposes this level of configurability.
I'm using Thunderbird 0.7. I'm not sure the problem you described appeared when I moved to it, but I'm having that same problem, and I had never had it under Mozilla mail, Netscape mail, or even Thunderbird. It's very annoying.