Decided to test drive Thunderbird on my Lucid Lynx system. Big, big mistake.
Upon trying to configure my first account, the application grabbed my details and aggressively ran off with an automatic configuration. But it got things wrong. When I tried to stop it and get things set right, it rewrote things the way it wanted. After the third try, I gave up. I can’t say who for sure put this functionality in, but it broke the thing badly.
Telling me I absolutely must use IMAP just because the server offers it is inexcusable arrogance. I know what I want, and why I want it, and I don’t appreciate some doofus deciding for me based on some common expectation. Yes, I suppose I could have manually changed the prefs.js myself, but that should not be necessary. If I have to fight for what I want, it’s no longer worth it.
Thunderbird is now officially trash in my book.
Not questioning you just it’s strange for you to get the opposite result I got with Thunderbird. For me it wanted to default to pop3. Strange indeed.
Making any default choice at all is questionable, but not giving me a reasonable chance to change it was simply wrong-headed. To take a default and fight the user’s attempts to make adjustments is evil.