I don't know if this is appropriate for this list but I thought this might be of interest to some:
Mozilla Thunderbird has an automatic email configuration wizard which is at present not interoperable with Exim in common configurations because it does not wait for the connection greeting before sending its EHLO which in turn causes Exim to close the connection and Thunderbird to fail to detect if the server offers STARTTLS. The wizard is made for users with little or no knowledge on this subject that rely on it working correctly. Users will be frustrated and organizations will have increased help desk costs. Based on a suggestion in the bug tracker entry for this issue [1] I developed a simple patch to fix it. Based on my experience it can be difficult to get fixes into Mozilla products, especially for Thunderbird for which Mozilla withdrew development resources. So I wanted to ask you to perhaps test the patch and use the voting function to make the importance of the issue clear to Mozilla and help to close this five year old entry. Thanks! - Matthias-Christian [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538809 -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
