[Bug 398895] [NEW] Installing CA certificates in Thunderbird gives no option to trush IMAP/SMTP hosts

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Public bug reported:

When importing a CA certificate in Thunderbird, the Downloading
Certificate dialog makes no sense.

Steps to reproduce:
1: Download a certificate, e.g. from http://ca.sikkerhed.org/ (direct url: http://sikkerhed.org/files/certificates/sikkerhedorg.crt)
2: Save the certificate to a file.
3: Open Thunderbird
4: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Certificates 
5: In the Certificate Manager open Authoritie
6: Click Import
7: Browse to the saved certificate from (http://ca.sikkerhed.org)
8: The dialog Downloading Certificate opens.
9: Observe the following:
 * The options given are: 
  - Trust this CA to identify web sites.
  - Trust this CA to identify email users
  - Trust this CA to identify software developers.
 * These three options makes *no sense* for a CA in Thunderbird. What the user wants is to trust the CA to identify IMAP servers, SMTP servers, etc. Not web sites. 
Others things wrong with this:
 * There is no explanation of what a CA is and what it means to trust it.
 * The window title is Downloading Certificate. This does not make sense as the certificate is loaded from a local file and not downloaded. It seems that this is just a hunk of code that is reused from Firefox without thinking.

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Installing CA certificates in Thunderbird gives no option to trush IMAP/SMTP hosts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398895
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