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Discuss whether we want to enable automatic email checking
Originally created by @segfault on #17282 (Redmine)
Context
We started this discussion in #17222 (comment 4426) and following. We did not reach a conclusion in time for 4.1, so we kept the behavior of previous Tails version, which is to disable the automatic email checking.
Before 4.1 the user could opt-in for automatic email checking (with or without being conscious of the privacy implications), but since 4.1 it’s impossible.
Scope
- fetch email automatically when Thunderbird starts
- fetch email regularly in the background
In favor of enabling automatic email checking
- better UX for a subset of our userbase
In favor of disabling automatic email checking
- email server admins can correlate multiple contextual identities
hosted on the same email server
- rebuttal: officially we don’t “support” using several contextual identities in a single Tails session (weak as users do it anyway in practice, and as long as we don’t forbid this nor warn them while setting up a 2+’th email account, that’s expected)
- rebuttal: at least in some cases, the “Get Messages” button leaks this info already (it’ll fetch email for every account, unless a specific one is selected already in the sidebar; if “Local Folders” is selected, that button fetches email for every account)
Related issues
- Related to #17222 (closed)