528513 - Username formula should have dropdown with standard values

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Webtools :: ISPDB Server, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

In almost all cases, username formula needs to be either "%EMAILADDRESS%" or
"%EMAILLOCALPART%". <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat>

If it doesn't have any of these two values, it's probably (not always) a useless config. They are also entirely non-obvious.

Therefore, the textfield should have a downdown, which fills in either of these two. Bonus points for an explanation.
If HTML doesn't allow that, then just put a text next to the field. People can then copy&paste it. The second time, Firefox autocomplete can help. This has the advantage that the explanation is very obvious and can hardly be missed. It's also trivial to implement.

Bonus points for a check that the field contains either of the placeholders and a warning (no hard error) when it doesn't. But maybe that should be a a different bug.

Comment 1

[Dan Schwartz]

I agree, since it's required and completely non-obvious what the values are, having a dropdown and simple example of what they mean would make it more usable.

It's also odd, that the username formula shows up blank in the incoming list, but is required for the outgoing config.

Comment 2

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Yup, that's bug 518510.