Closed Bug 243496 Opened 21 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Ability to query server authentication capabilities

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Account Manager
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 387421

People

(Reporter: Sebastian, Assigned: mscott)

Details

What I like very much about kmail (and others) is their button: "Check Server" (or something like this. Whick looks whether a pop/imap server can do SSL/APOP/MD5/... and disables the unsupported capabilities. Very often when configuring a mail account I find myself experimenting with all settings only to get told "Server does not recognize secure authentication" or waiting for an SSL timeout.
Component: Preferences → Account Manager
Yep gotta say this is a very useful feature of kmail that I'd like to see in thunderbird. I saves a lot of messing about when the server is upgraded to include different authentication methods.
QA Contact: account-manager
though this is older, bug 387421 got more attention ...
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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