284905 - Provide Option in Account Creation to not use Authenticated SMTP

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

When I launch a new installation of Thunderbird, ie no profile, I am asked to
setup an email account.

When I work through the wizard and get to the username section, I can not set up
an SMTP server with no authentication. I need to set it up with authentication
than go to preferences to delete it. 

From an End-User perspective, this is not good as I doubt many ISPs by default
use Authenticated SMTP (certainly not with username/passwords) - and they may
find Thunderbird is broken due to it not being able to send email.

I would reckon that it would be more useful to have a "Use Authenticated SMTP"
checkbox which would enable the username box to allow them to specify a password
for SMTP - this would default to off.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.