708030 - Awkward wording in Account Provisioner disclaimer

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

"The search terms used are sent to Mozilla (Privacy Policy) and to 3rd party email providers Hover.com (Privacy Policy, Terms of Service) to find available email addresses."

This reads a little oddly.

Comment 1

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Hey, you know who's good at words?  Matej!  Maybe he'll have some quick suggestions for us, if you can describe the problem a little more…  ;)

Comment 2

[Matej Novak [:matej]]

Yeah, if you could give me a bit more context, I'd be happy to help. As it is, I'm not sure where that appears or even exactly what it's trying to say. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Matej Novak [:matej] from comment #2)
> Yeah, if you could give me a bit more context, I'd be happy to help. As it
> is, I'm not sure where that appears or even exactly what it's trying to say.
> Thanks!

When you launch Thunderbird for the first time with a clean profile and you want to create an email address this is the text you get. From a running Thunderbird installation do the following to see the text :

File -> New -> Get New mail account 
A nice windows open with a click here text . click on here and see the text mike si refereing to in comment #0

Comment 4

[Matej Novak [:matej]]

I think this helps a bit:

"The search terms entered above are sent to Mozilla (Privacy Policy) and to the 3rd-party email provider Hover.com (Privacy Policy, Terms of Service) to find email addresses available for use."

Comment 5

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Matej:

Ah, lovely, thank you. :)

-Mike