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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Onno Ekker wrote on 21.03.2017 13:51:<br>
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<div>I think one thing that should be improved, is setting
up Thunderbird for the first time. As it is now, you
immediately get a prompt to get an account for Gandhi, and
the option to use an existing mail account is somewhat
hidden. Most of the users do have an existing account
though, provided by their ISP, so I think configuring
Thunderbird for an existing mail account should be the
default.<br>
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Oh yes! Seconded!<br>
It completely defeats the whole purpose of the entire "easy setup"
dialog, to hide it in a button.<br>
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That doesn't make any sense anymore. I'll try to get that changed.
It should simply be inverted: "Setup existing account" should be the
first dialog, and "new account" should be a button.<br>
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<div>Also if someone doesn't have an existing mail account
or wants to setup a new account anyway, he should be
served better than to be given the option to get an
account for Gandhi. There are a couple of free mail
providers, like Gmail of Hotmail, which have their own
merits. A brief explanation of the differences between
such a free account, an address with their ISP and a payed
account and maybe a guide to help acquire an account for
Gmail or Hotmail is the least we could do.</div>
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FWIW, that's how it's designed. The system is open to any provider
who wants to open it to us per API, including freemail. Gandi was
the only taker (I originally made the connection between them and
Mozilla, back then). That makes the whole dialog a kind-of
non-starter, indeed.<br>
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<div>This is especially necessary, since people don't always
realize what an email client is or does and they don't
understand the difference between the program and the mail
address.<br>
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Ironically, that's precisely why Mozilla originally added it. But I
fear they just added to the confusion, and blurred the whole meaning
of an email client - you use it with your existing email addresses.<br>
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Ben
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