Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird

[Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@hadt.biz>]

Am 03.02.2013 15:08, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> 
> So what we have here is a piece of FOSS software that is too fucking
> clever for it's own good. It's applying insane validation checks to
> things that are not in any spec at all:
> 
> - I want two IMAP accounts. One runs locally on port 143. The other one
> is also local, and just happens to use the same username. It also runs
> on a different port which uses ssl magic to tunnel through into the
> corporate network. A mail client has no business deciding it will not
> add the second account because it already has something for that
> username and host. So fucking what? I'll run 19 imap servers on
> localhost if I feel like it, it's no business of Mozilla if I do
> 
> - I don't *actually* need to give a valid password for a mail client to
> configure the account. So what if I don't have the password right now?
> Maybe I'll get it later. Just add the damn thing to your config and stop
> refusing to continue if you can't validate the password! That becomes my
> problem not Mozillas!
> 
> - When I change data in a textbox on a dialog and the "Advanced config"
> button ungreys, I sorta kinda expect it to do something. Like maybe let
> me add stuff that is out of the ordinary. i sorta kinda don't expect it
> to do nothing nothing whatsoever at all and sit there having no effect.
> 
> - Wizards are fine for helping out Aunt Tilly. But for the love of Pete,
> give advanced users a way to bypass the thing and enter information that
> has not occurred to Mozilla devs yet. It;'s not hard to come out with
> scenarios that any wizard does not cater for.
> 
> Rant over. Now where is Thunderbirds bugzilla?
> 

Here you go https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
And while your at it, tell them to drop that social media shite like FB
from their products :)