[Chandler-dev] Thunderbird will support account settings autodiscovery for some webmail accounts

[Brian Kirsch]

+1 for Thunderbird.

This is something I have been thinking about in Chandler for some time.

I am waiting post Preview to begin reworking the Account dialogs in to
a wizard. At that point users should be able to configure Gmail,  
Yahoo POP,
and other well established web clients with POP / IMAP support easily
through the UI without having to know host names, ports, security  
settings etc..



-Brian


Brian Kirsch
Internationalization Architect / Mail Service Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
543 Howard Street 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://www.osafoundation.org



On Apr 9, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/04/thunderbirdqa_0409
>
> "A lot of users want to check their web-mail accounts using a desktop
> client, but they don't know all the information necessary to connect.
> For instance, with Gmail you need to know the server names in addition
> to your login information. We wanted to make the process easier for
> users, so we've provided Gmail integration using just an e-mail  
> address.
> All the user has to do is enter their e-mail address and password and
> Thunderbird will figure out the server details for them.
>
> For the Mac version, we've provided the same one-step integration with
> .Mac. We plan to add more web-mail services and even ISP providers in
> future releases. In the meantime, it's possible for developers to  
> write
> extensions for other popular web e-mail providers."
>
> -- 
>   Heikki Toivonen
>
>
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