If we have the information for that ISP, we return the RDF file to use for it. We take the domain from the address and look it up on a server. When creating a new mail account, the user provides his e-mail address. It lacks flexibility in that we can't easily add ISP files without doing new releases, and all of the ISP files end up in the CVS tree. This is a straight forward solution using known pieces of the platform. We can work with the l10n owners for each localized version of Thunderbird so it ships with the most popular ISPs. ISP configuration files can currently be packaged on a per locale basis. Host a web service which given a users's mail domain can return the ISP configuration file for that ISP if we have one.Ship with as many ISP configuration files as we can.

There are two solutions we can explore to meet this goal Leverage and empower our global community of volunteers to generate the ISP configuration data for users.Make account setup easy for users using ISPs and web mail providers around the world.We've been getting a lot of positive feedback on this approach but it needs to be taken further. The user provides his e-mail address for these accounts and Thunderbird figures out the rest of the information. Thunderbird 2 started to address this problem by shipping ISP configuration files for gmail and. Many users don't know this information, get discouraged and don't get any further with using the product. It requires users to know details about their mail server such as the host name, IMAP or POP, smtp server name, etc. Note : Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration describes the same idea, independently, and is being implemented right nowĪccount setup is a large entry barrier for many consumers getting up and running quickly with Thunderbird. 1.4.1 Explicitly list each available ISP.

1 Note : Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration describes the same idea, independently, and is being implemented right now.

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