540415 - [autoconfig] Username detection should be improved

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Dennis Riehle]

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As diskussed in bug 538809 (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538809#c14) the username detection in then autoconfig dialog should be improved.

After Thunderbird has detected the servers for incomming and outgoiang mail, it should try the following usernames for each server:
1) [e-mail] (the full email adress entered by the user)
2) user@(pop|imap|stmp).example.org (generally user@detected-host)
3) user (generally local part of adress entered by the user)

When the authentication succeeds on both incomming and outgoing mail server, then Thunderbird should display a green icon in front of the username.

If the authentication fails on one or both of the mail servers, then Thunderbird should display a red icon, probably an orange icon if only one failed.

Currently the account wizzard doesn't allow different usernames on the incomming and outgoing mail server. It should be discussed if this feature is nececcary, as it might be a rare case. Two possible solutions would be:
1) Make two fields for username, display the rows with the username configuration under the rows for the corresponding server configuration and name them e.g. "Username Incomming" and "Username Outgoing"
-> Advantage: Red/Green icon can be displayed seperately for each server.
2) Keep it simple, with only one username field. If the authentication failed on one server, display an orange icon and notify the user that he/she can change the settings later on, after account creation.

Personally, I would vote for the first suggestion.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kent James (:rkent)]

I'll confirm this because I see it all of the time myself, as my email addresses follow type 1) "[e-mail]"  The results can be real ugly if the guessed name is not corrected.