623141 - Enhance account information in Thunderbird to give users the option of 'sharing' their working config with the ispdb

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Matt]

Currently there is quite an installed base of Thunderbird with working mail configurations in them.  Some have been quite hard won for the user involved.  many probably belong to smaller ISP's that might never actually make it into the ISPDB unless someone provides a hint that it might be needed there

I am suggesting Thunderbird needs to capitalise on this potential and place a mechanism into the application to allow the user to feed those settings back to Mozilla messaging for potential inclusion in the ISPDB. Everyone is doing such things, including Mozilla with their 'week in the life of a browser'

I am not suggesting direct inclusion, but a method to build up a body if data that could be used to identify missing mail providers and provide at least a starting point with those mail providers as to what does in fact work. 

It should be fairly trivial to flag accounts which have sent and received mail, and therefore work and ask he user once about a week after the account is known to work if they would care to share (it would be important to ensure that a no response was recorded for next time and account was updated). Accumulation and analysis of data could be done at leisure or automatically,  A provider with 50 automated responses all identical would make a strong case for being correct for inclusion in the ISPDB ( not definite. I have heard of cox)

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I'm not sure if we have a dup or not.
And ben probably thought about it so he can tell us more on the subject.