Add support for account without outgoing server

[ByteHamster]

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• [X] I have used the search function to see if someone else has already submitted the same feature request.
• [X] I will describe the problem with as much detail as possible.
• [X] This issue only contains a request for one single feature, not multiple (related) features.

App version

6.714

Problem you are trying to solve

Now that I didn't do any code contributions for K-9 for quite a while, I just switched from an old debug version to the official beta version on Google Play. So far, the new account setup looks quite nice. I'm sure it will help many new users. However, I noticed a few problems that I will be creating issues now.

I have an email account that apparently does not support sending mail via SMTP (office356, smtpclientauthentication is disabled for the tenant). I would still love to add that account to K-9, simply without an SMTP configuration. In the old account setup, I could just skip the outgoing server and add an account that is receive-only. This no longer works with the new account setup.

Suggested solution

Add a way to skip adding the SMTP server

Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details

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[cketti]

The app doesn't really support accounts with only incoming servers. We don't want to make it too easy for users to end up with a broken account after account setup. That's why we removed skipping errors.

You should still be able to set up the account by using the manual flow and changing the outgoing server settings to not use authentication. That way the app will only connect to the outgoing server, but not attempt to authenticate.

[cketti]

I guess we can leave this open as a feature request to add proper support for accounts without an outgoing server. In addition to changing account setup, this involves hiding all UI elements related to sending messages.

[Peter0]

You should still be able to set up the account by using the manual flow and changing the outgoing server settings to not use authentication.

I don't know what is meant by "manual flow".

Sorry, as of v 6.714, when beginning with an already working outgoing server, just chosing "keine Authentifizierung" (no authentification), followed by "Weiter" (continue) gives no error message, but looking again under properties for outgoing server reveals that the former action was indeed a No-Op (I mean that there is still password authentification active, as in the beginning). If I, in addition, changing the password to an invalid one before choosing no authentification, then hitting continue button does nothing; only top left lefthand arrow gives an reaction (and does what one expect – canceling pending changes).

So, sorry, but this didn't help.