Comment 42 for bug 24220

I'm curious if Nelson has any insight into the "STARTTLS if available" option, in particular if it has any value over auto-probing. Do servers ever go back and forth between supporting STARTTLS and not? My guess is that users don't know, and that's a safe option to pick.

If you remove the option from the UI, most people would never notice, until after they'd tried to send mail. Perhaps we could only show that option if it was the currently selected option, but once the user sends mail, we set the choice to STARTTLS if it was available, and not, if it wasn't.

I notice Eudora has "STARTTLS if available" as an option as well.

Re your other questions, for offline, for Windows and Linux, we'll know if we're offline, because of auto-detect, and we just have to handle it gracefully, probably by letting the user figure it out, which partly answers your other question, yes, I think we should let the user change the settings. Having the UI be simpler would be nice, but I think the user does have to have control over these settings - whether that happens in the account wizard, as opposed to the account settings dialog, I'm not sure. In general, we can get away with the account wizard having less choices, but we always get complaints.