Landry Breuil <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 06:25:33PM +0000, Stéphane HUC - PengouinBSD wrote:
> > On 2019-11-07 17:17, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 06:06:35PM +0100, Stéphane HUC wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > In 2019/09/08, about Firefox and DoH by default, Otto Moerbeek
> > > > suggested to add the string ' network.trr.mode=5' into file
> > > > 'all-openbsd.js'.
> > > > 
> > > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=156794162705366&w=2
> > > > 
> > > > Wouldn't it be interesting to do the same for Thunderbird, knowing
> > > > that this option can be enabled by default?
> > > > 
> > > > Just for the example, I attach a diff based on stable; if it's OK, I
> > > > can transmit a diff, based on current.
> > > > Yes or no?
> > > 
> > > Do you have any evidence that thunderbird actually uses DoH, or you're
> > > just cargoculting things here ? Afaik, DoH is only enabled via
> > > on-the-fly configuration done remotely by mozilla for firefox, and i
> > > doubt the same processes are used for thunderbird, which isnt handled by
> > > mozilla anymore.
> > > 
> > > Landry
> > 
> > @Landry:
> > TL;DR: Open Thunderbird  and see!
> > As, explain on Daemonforum, yes, it's now possible:
> > http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=67844#post67844
> > 
> > @all:
> > Yes, it's possible to configure DoH into Thunderbird (v68.1) on OpenBSD 6.6,
> > a minima with 'about:config', and set both strings 'network.trr.mode' and
> > 'network.trr.uri'.
> > Into GUI, go to the Preferences > Advanced > Connections settings, etc...
> 
> Well yes it's possible since the codebase is shared, i never questioned
> that.
> 
> My question was more about 'will thunderbird upstream try to experiment
> enabling it for subsets of users like firefox does' - in that case
> force-disabling it might make sense, but if thunderbird upstream has no
> such plans (and, to my knowledge, this is the case) then i dont see the
> point.

But maybe they do, and you don't know, and it will slide in with a future
diff you won't even see

So the proposal makes sense to me.

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