179362 - (why not add an) SSL checkbox in add account wizard?

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 80919

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Stan Traykov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021108
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021108

Currently, in order to set-up an account which is accessed over the internet (or
some other insecure line) one must:
1. add an account'
2. click on cancel in the follwoing "get messages" dialogue
   (in order to omit plain text password transmission)
3. go to preferences and check the "use ssl" box
4. click on the "get new messages"-button (to save the password)

I doubt this is what all people really do, though. The procedure could even be
considered a security bug, since it "makes" you forget what you're doing:-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80919 ***

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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