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E.g. --<br>
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<b>WELCOME -- Configuring Thunderbird<br>
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</b>What do you want to do now?<br>
<ol>
<li>Configure Thunderbird to work with an <u>existing</u> email
account?<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Have Thunderbird create a <u>new</u> email account and work
with it? <br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Manually configure Thunderbird for more specialized uses?</li>
</ol>
<p><b>NOTE:</b> You can return here later to configure Thunderbird
to work with <u>multiple</u> new or existing email accounts.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-05-02 13:55, Wayne Mery wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/2/2019 4:16 PM, Mike Ramey
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:b40bed3e-93cd-02e7-59fa-39274517cf15@Gmail.com">I'm
bothered by the phrase "Set Up an Existing Account". Why?
Because you're NOT 'setting up an existing account'. The
existing <b><u>email</u></b> account is <u>already</u> 'set
up' and (I assume) correctly configured. The user is <b><u>configuring</u></b><b><u>
Thunderbird</u></b> to connect to & work with an
existing, working email account. What about something like: <br>
<ul>
<li>Set Up Thunderbird to: <br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>Work with an existing email account <br>
or<br>
</li>
<li>Create & work with a new email account</li>
</ul>
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<p>I've also had concerns about this. It might be interesting to
see how other mail clients handle this.</p>
<p>That said, I'm sure there have been struggles with "naming" and
wording this in the past. So it may be instructive to look at
the following (in reverse chronological order)<br>
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<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637651"
moz-do-not-send="true">Bug 637651 - "Creating account" wording
is a bit confusing</a></p>
<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511308"
moz-do-not-send="true">Bug 511308 - make autoconfig the
default new account UI</a> plus <a
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration</a></p>
<p>(there is probably some account wizard or other bugs I am
missing prior to 2008/9)<br>
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