thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Improve error messages during account setup

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#7,332 opened on Nov 7, 2023

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Description

Currently our error messages during account setup aren't as detailed as they could and should be.

When we're able to connect to an IMAP server, but that server returns an error message, we currently don't show it to the user. But we should.

For network errors we should provide more details (e.g. no internet connectivity, server couldn't be reached, name couldn't be resolved).

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Research direction
Investigate the account setup flow to identify where IMAP server errors and network errors are caught but not displayed. Look for existing error handling code and modify it to show the server error message for IMAP errors, and provide more specific network error messages (e.g., no internet connectivity, server unreachable, name resolution failure).
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kotlin
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mobile
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2
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1-3 hours
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KotlinAndroid
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