I think this would be well worth mentioning in the changelog. Just to give one reason: the changes to the profile folder from the 78.x to 91.x series are irreversible. Once a profile has been opened with the 91.x series, even after re-opening with 78.x and --allow-downgrade the local mail account is unreadable. As best I can tell, the mail isn't actually deleted, it's just invisible to the profile configuration, but you can't get it back without potentially corrupting the entire profile. Moreover, at some point in the 78.x series setting up a new movemail account became impossible, so the most expedient recovery method is unavailable.
This means users with a Thunderbird movemail account will permanently lose access to that account unless they have a full profile backup to restore from. I think most folks would agree this counts as a regression that has the potential to result in data loss. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1946606 Title: thunderbird 91 does not support movemail Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Thunderbird 91 does not support local Unix Mailspool (Movemail) accounts. This is apparently a well-known upstream decision, but is not documented in the Ubuntu changelog for the package, and the sudden absence of a local mail account is rather jarring to experience. > remove movemail support https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741 https://hg.mozilla.org/comm- central/rev/931a1fb770eb9bf6d2b99c7afcf07521376a5da4 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1946606/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
