> If Owl has the ability to actually give us an accurate answer for login and config, why don't we integrate it in TB?
We'd essentially put Owl into Thunderbird. It needs to parse web pages to get this specific error. The auth code is highly complex and we constantly improve it. I agree it would be nice, if this was possible, but this is 10x-100x too complex for it.
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> If Owl has the ability to actually give us an accurate answer for login and config, why don't we integrate it in TB?
We'd essentially put Owl into Thunderbird. It needs to parse web pages to get this specific error. The auth code is highly complex and we constantly improve it. I agree it would be nice, if this was possible, but it's 100x too complex for that. (That 100x is not hyperbole, but an actual value based both on code size and frequency of changes.)