[flukus]

I haven't used thunderbird in a while, have they not added an easy setup for people using the popular online mail servers yet?

[maggotbrain]

It seems that they have. I just started using Thunderbird again after a number of years and the setup to connect to my gmail account has been simplified to confirming the settings on one page with three auto-filled fields.

[icebraining]

You don't need an API for that, just a few hardcoded settings that get auto-filled based on the domain.