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mozilla-thunderbird package

  1. Bug #24220
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 24220

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In , Bienvenu (bienvenu) wrote :

I don't remember exactly why we have "STARTTLS if available". It started in Netscape 4.5, iirc. One possibility is that the user may not know if they have STARTTLS, and "if available" is a reasonable default. But I don't think we made it the default, perhaps because back then some servers didn't implement it correctly.

So I have no problem getting rid of it, except that we'd have to upgrade users who have it selected to the appropriate setting, based on whether the server supports it.