Cannot add Gmail account if "accept cookies" is disabled
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(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)
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(Reporter: denilsonsa, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Steps to reproduce:
For improved security and privacy, I opened Thunderbird settings and disabled "Accept cookies from sites". After all, this is an e-mail client, not a web browser, and thus I believe there shouldn't be any cookies to store in the MTA.
Then, I went to account settings and tried adding a Gmail account.
Actual results:
After filing the full name and the e-mail address (bonus: I was surprised it still asked for the password at the initial form, since such password is not used due to the web-based login flow), I proceeded. The popup browser window opened with the familiar Gmail login flow. However, after trying to advance, it never did, it always stayed in the same initial dialog.
After half hour of troubleshooting, I remembered I had disabled cookies.
Expected results:
Option 1: Even though cookies are disabled, the login flow should keep cookies during the login flow session. Possibly in an isolated environment/sandbox than the main cookies. After Thunderbird collects the required auth token(s), that isolated environment can be discarded.
Option 2: (Easier to implement.) Thunderbird should have warned me that the login flow won't work without enabling cookies, with a link to open the settings directly.
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