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Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration

698 bytes removed, 20:44, 21 July 2009
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In the Account Setup wizard, if the "Email account" radio button is selected (which is the default), 3 text fields are visible and enabled: real name, email address and password.
Email address is properly syntax-checked, and the existance of the domain in DNS is checked.
The domain if the email address is used to determine the configuration (POP/IMAP and SMTP server names, SSL yes/no, authentication methods etc.), via several mechanisms:
# Config files on harddisk, in <installdir>/isp/*.xml. Same file format as below. This is only for intranet deployments, we won't be shipping any configs by default anymore, in favor of the following alternatives.
# Try to get the configuration from the provider
#* Try to contact https://autoconfig.<i>emailaddressdomain</i>/mail/mozilla.xml?emailaddress=<i>emailaddress</i> and see whether that host/URL exists.
#* Or (not yet implemented), define a DNS TXT record on domain example.net (for my.account@example.net) which contains an URL like e.g. https://www.example.net/mozilla.xml . A similar, but slightly different proposal is described in detail on [[Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:DNSBasedLookup|DNSBasedLookup]].
#* That file contains the mail configuration. Content is described on [[Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat|ConfigFileFormat]].
# Try to find the config at the Mozilla server (if the email provider does not provide the configuration)
#* Fetch https://autoconfig.mozillamessaging.com/mail.xml?domain=<i>emailaddressdomain</i>. (Email address of user is not passed, otherwise Mozilla would have a list of email addresses of all users.)
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