Ubuntu
thunderbird package

Phones home at startup

Bug #878261 reported by Scott Kitterman on 2011-10-19

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	thunderbird (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Due to problems with my previous MUA of choice, I've recently started using Thunderbird again. Today it started before the network was up and so I got the attached screen shot. I understand live.mozillamessaging.com is used to support account configuration, but I don't think there is any legitimate purpose for phoning home when the application is started.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2011-10-19:

Screen shot Edit (68.8 KiB, application/octet-stream)

visibility:

private → public

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2011-10-19:

When I did retry after the network was up and capture the data with wireshark, it was sent over https, so no idea what's being sent.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2011-10-20:

It connects to live.mozillamessaging.com to display the start page in the message pane, that's all (or the "what's new" page if you've just upgraded). You can disable that in the preferences if you think it's a privacy concern