| Summary: | Decouple the value of "port" and "SSL" in Thunderbird "mail account setup" | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Tonhofer <bughunt> | ||||
| Component: | thunderbird | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 24 | CC: | gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, pjasicek | ||||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2016-08-23 13:34:25 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Thanks for your report. We'll move it upstream, I'm also able to reproduce it. In relevant source code [1] the your configuration is described as impossible. I don't know from what source is this statement taken from. [1] https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/prefs/content/accountcreation/emailWizard.js#1152 Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1297380 Thanks Jan. I have actually managed to get past the screen in question using bogus settings. One can then go into the detailed configuration of the account and set things from there. |
Created attachment 1192968 [details] The entry dialog in its nasty glory. Description of problem: ======================= In the thunderbird "mail account setup" the values of "Port" and "SSL" are mysteriously linked. They should no be linked, in no case, no sir! Concretely seems to be impossible to use Port 587 and SSL/TLS, which I need. Thunderbird INSISTS that 587 =absolutely=> STARTTLS, and that SSL/TLS =absolutely=> 465 Thunderbird also refuses to proceed when the "Configuration could not be verified" (why could it not be verified). Instead it should let the user decide what's best and let him proceed! Jesus H. Christ! [Rant: This kind of bad furuncle is occurring more and more nowadays - interfaces that could have been written by the software development group of Weyland-Yutani. These interfaces pretend to "know best", but don't provide workarounds, explanations or even a semblance of sanity. Especially on Unixen, this should be anathema. What happened KISS stuff and "paste your INI file here" and "your values seem bonkers (and here is why I think so), do you really want to proceed?". NO LONGER! The interface shall behave like a blockwart ... for your own good, leaving you stranded. I think Neal Stephenson discussed this problem in "in the beginning ... was the command line"] I should probably bump this to Thunderbird maintenance (whoever that is nowadays ...) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): =============== thunderbird-45.2.0-1.fc24.x86_64 How reproducible: ================= ALWWAYS