514864 - Simplify e-mail account setup by using a settings db

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 422814

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Thorsten Sick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.13
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.23

The account creation process can be simplified by using a small database for the
most essential webmail providers and their settings.
The first page of the assistant should ask for mail address and password. Using
the mail address Thunderbird can do a db lookup and read the settings for this
provider (smtp, imap/pop3 server, encryption settings).
The user would just have to conirm the settings.
A small database (xml file?) with the top 10 freemail provider for every
country should fix most of the cases.

Example:
Mail adress is [e-mail]. Check in the xml file for the setings of bar.com,
read them and fill the rest of the assistant's fields with the defaults.

A similar bug is filed for evolution:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590523


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

This will be available with the upcoming Thunderbird 3.0 release.