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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/<i>emailaddressdomain</i>.xml , e.g. <installdir>/isp/example.com.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 email provider (not yet implemented)
## Try to contact https://autoconfig.<i>emailaddressdomain</i>/mail/mozilla.xml?emailaddress=<i>emailaddress</i> , e.g. https://autoconfig.example.com/mail/mozilla.xml?emailaddress=fred@example.com and see whether that host/URL exists. The returned file must have the [[Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat|ConfigFileFormat]] as below. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534722 bug 534722].
## and/or, 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 , which also returns this file format. A similar, but slightly different proposal is described in detail on [[Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:DNSBasedLookup|DNSBasedLookup]].
## and/or use DNS SRV records _imap._tcp.example.com etc. (Problem: Doesn't provide username form etc..)
# Try to find the config at the Mozilla server (if the email provider does not provide the configuration)
#* Fetch https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/<i>emailaddressdomain</i>, e.g. https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/example.com . (Email address of user is not passed, otherwise Mozilla would have a list of email addresses of all users.)
#* That file contains the mail configuration. Content is described on [[Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat|ConfigFileFormat]].
#* This service will have the configuration for all the major ISPs and email providers, so there's a 90+% hit rate
