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This standard shall be licensed according to Mozilla compatible licenses and is copyright (c) 2008 of Eddy Nigg and other contributors. Not sure if this is needed, but prefer to be on the save side for now, just in case other vendors want to adopt it. In short, rather save then sorry ;-) Please advice on this.
This standard shall be licensed according to Mozilla compatible licenses and is copyright (c) 2008 of Eddy Nigg and other contributors. Not sure if this is needed, but prefer to be on the save side for now, just in case other vendors want to adopt it. In short, rather save then sorry ;-) Please advice on this.
=== Implementation in Thunderbird ===
This is not trivial to implement, as [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/e8bdb0af31961908/d9810a0056106917?lnk=st&q=thunderbird+dmose+DNS#d9810a0056106917 dmose says], because Mozilla has no API to fetch arbitrary DNS records (like TXT), only to resolve hostnames (A records).
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