1421072 - There are too many preference pages for email settings

Status: NEW

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Email Notifications, defect)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Bugzilla's email settings are scattered over several preference pages:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=settings
  Email Notifications

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
  Email Preferences

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=bugmail_filter
  Bugmail Filtering

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=securemail
  Secure Mail


I understand not wanting to have all settings on one page because that may be overwhelming. But having email settings scattered across several pages makes it difficult to find them and know what all can be customized.

In particular, having "Email Notifications" on the "General Preferences" page is not intuitive. I think that's part of the reason why I didn't discover the "Add 'New:' to subject line of email sent when a new bug is file" setting until today (see also bug 1421024).

Also, the settings are using "Email," "Bugmail," and "Mail" to describe what I perceive to be the same thing (email). Unifying the terminology could be useful.

Comment 1

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

You missed one too, I think -- component watching is about email too.

emma: wasn't there a tracking bug for reorganizing the email settings?

Comment 2

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

That's bug 1396160, which I'll make this a dependency of.