Version: unspecified OS: Linux Advanced auto detection and input validation would be very useful in the smtp/imap/pop config dialogs. Ideally a user should just have to put in their user, pass, and server. Then click "Test Settings" which will: 1) perform auto detection of advanced (port, encryption, authentication) settings IF not manually set by the suer 2) do a test login with the user's credentials 3) Report back if everything went well or if not Usability++ Reproducible: Didn't try
*** Bug 179540 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thunderbird does this very smoothely and even determines the servers of common ISPs when given the email address only. That's awesome and I would love to see it in KMail as well. This usability improvement is going to take quite some work. I would say that it has high priority, though, because (1) this is a considerable drawback compared to Thunderbird and (2) setup procedures are crucial to new users, deciding whether they stick with KMail or install Thunderbird.
Created attachment 73842 [details] How the configuration dialog for prefix recognition could look like
Jonas.Bechtel@web.de ????????????????????? are you sure that it's the good bug report ?