The wizard of the Account Assistant lacks some configuration options and requires the user to edit different configurations after having added an account. In particular. Also some defaults are confusing and should probably be revised.

1. account name is not selectable, a new account will appear with a generic name ("IMAP Account 1") and the user has to modify this manually;

2. while the wizard is launched from the "Receiving" tab, it ends up adding an "Identity", the identity name is not configurable from the wizard. The user should be probably made aware a new identity is being created and be prompted for the name;

3. by default, serverside subscriptions are enabled and this may cause an IMAP account not to appear at all without any prompt or warning for the user (see also bug 419872); very confusing behaviour even for "expert" users;

4. Sent mail and Wastebin folders default to local folders while one may want to stick to the folders in the server; to edit the wastebin location one has to modify the Receiving account but to edit the Sent mail folder one has to edit the Identity (which is not obvious as, see point 2, the user is not made aware of the fact a new identity is being created and some of the options are stored in it).

5. this is maybe subjective but defaulting to the creation of a GPG key pair when a new account is added is probably not the most sensible choice; an expert user can opt-in for cryptography but a non-expert should probably not be "lured" into setting up something they do not fully understand; maybe the feature can be dropped from the wizard altogether (note that in recent years several professionals have advised against the use of PGP-style security in emails for OPSEC reasons).