#18 Allow multiple XMPP accounts with the same username/domain

[Hoa Trinh]

Allow multiple XMPP accounts with the same username and domain but with different connect servers. This feature was available in Pidgin 2.3 however the developers have since removed it and refuse to put it back while continuing to argue that this is not necessary.

In my company we have a production and pre-production server deployed. I would like to connect to both at the same time. The problem is, the application will not allow multiple XMPP accounts with the same username and domain. Instead of uniquely identifying the accounts by the connect server or resource name, I suspect it uses a combination of username/protocol/domain name which in my case are not unique.

eg.
PRODUCTION SERVER:
Protocol: XMPP
Username: <my user id>
Domain: domain.com
Resource: Server1
Connect Server: server1.domain.com

PRE-PRODUCTION SERVER:
Protocol: XMPP
Username: <my user id>
Domain: domain.com
Resource: Server2
Connect Server: server2.domain.com

This is not currently possible with Carrier nor Pidgin because it believes both these accounts are the same, but obviously they are not.

[rapalax]

Due to scalability/security issues we have a similar setup in our company. There are many here who have accounts on 2 or more xmpp servers (with the same id/email).

Would it be possible to increase the priority and get this fixed ?