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Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration

272 bytes added, 15:40, 21 January 2009
Implementation: Add heustics step, as implemented. I don't like it.
#* If a provider disagrees with a setting there, it can override the configuration by simply providing the config server in step 2.
# If the [[Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat|config file]] contains extra values to be filled in by the user, there's a screen inserted that provides textfields for this.
# Other waysIf we couldn't find any configuration file, espwe try to guess the configuration using some heuristics. We try imap.<i>domain</i>, pop.<i>domain</i>, pop3.<i>domain</i>, smtp.<i>domain</i> and mail.<i>domain</i>, and for corporate email accounts? Avoid heuristics and trail&error!each, try the common 2-3 ports. We check whether SSL is available, which authentication algorithms are announces by the server in the CAPABILITIES etc..# If all fails, we ask the user to enter the configuration, using the existing wizardmanually.
If we could find a configuration, we're done already, with that one screen.
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