From: jj4public@outlook.com   
      
   On Fri, 5 May 2023 21:40:20 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:   
   >   
   > I just installed and started it.   The very first thing it tried to do was   
   > to connect to a handfull of mozilla servers.  Strike one.   
   >   
   > It doesn't seem to have any accessible configuration where I can gouvern   
   > (stop!) such behaviour.  Strike two.   
      
   Unfortunately, that is true and I'm completely agree with you.   
      
   Thunderbird (TB) has an advanced setting like in Firefox's `about:config`,   
   it's just that for older TB versions, it's presented in a dialog rather than   
   a tab, since older TB versions still use XUL.   
      
   However, it doesn't provide all of the needed settings such as disabling the   
   phone-home. What we can do is to hijaak all of the phone-home URLs so that   
   it points to `localhost`. e.g. from:   
      
       https://www.mozilla.net/leak-receiver   
      
   To:   
      
       https://localhost/www.mozilla.net/leak-receiver   
      
   For setting which contains only host name(s) rather than URL(s), we can   
   change them to use `.local` TLD which will never resolve to any IP unless   
   the user specifically sets up a DNS for it. e.g. change `www.mozilla.net` to   
   `www.mozilla.net.local`.   
      
   While this may be an ill method, it shouldn't be needed if Mozilla doesn't   
   do ill things in the first place. They may call it a "feature" or whatever.   
   It's a privacy leaker.   
      
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