752618 - Send country code to email provider, to allow for different pricing and currency conversion.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

One of the email account providers we're talking to has different suggestions and prices for different countries, and so would need to take the user's country into account when offering suggestions.

Assigning to sancus, because he's the person who will need to implement it.

CCing Sid, because it's more user data that we'll be sending to the (user-selected) providers, and so it should probably get a privacy-once-over.

Thanks,
Blake.

Comment 1

[Sid Stamm [:geekboy or :sstamm]]

This is probably a data point the providers could get from the user's IP address, right?  (And non-technically, do we want to encourage price differentiation based on the user's location?  This seems unfair to me...)

Comment 2

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

They could, but we don't send the user's IP address to the providers at this point.  (We proxy this call through a Mozilla server, and collate the results from several providers before returning them to Thunderbird.)

By price differentiation, I meant more being able to pay in round numbers in your local currency, as opposed to charging different prices, similarly to the way apps in Apple's AppStore cost me $0.99 CAD, whereas they cost you (presumably) $0.99 USD…

Comment 3

[Sid Stamm [:geekboy or :sstamm]]

Ah, I see.  I think it's reasonable to send country codes through the proxy at the same time the "First Name, Last Name" data points are sent.

Comment 4

[Yann Brelière]

Should this block Bug 686347 ?

Comment 5

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

This functionality's been implemented and is currently in use for Gandi only, but easily provided to any other partner if required.

We're sending ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 codes only.