[tor-bugs] #10836 [TorBirdy]: Enable mail account autoconfig dialog in TorBirdy

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#10836: Enable mail account autoconfig dialog in TorBirdy
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     Reporter:  ben          |      Owner:  ben
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  TorBirdy     |    Version:
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Comment (by ben):

 > Instead of removing the email adress from the GET parameters and still
 sending a plain HTTP request, a 'forceHTTPS' pref for these ISP fetches
 would be nice.

 That's not possible. I really **wanted** to use HTTPS for this. It's that
 almost no ISP was able to do this. The bigger hosters couldn't, because
 they need one cert per customer domain (or all customer domains in one
 cert), and that's not feasible. The small entities can't, because they
 often don't have a cert and getting one is too complicated - the guy
 wanting the autoconfig is usually not responsible for the web servers. In
 fact, I'm having big trouble getting people to use the fetch ISP mechanism
 at all.

 That said, the most important is the ISPDB at Mozilla. That covers about
 40% of the accounts. I think fetchISP covers only a very small percentage,
 if even 1%. Guess config is much more important - in practice - as much as
 I dislike the idea.

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